The mirror and the lamp : romantic theory and the critical tradition - Abrams, M. H. (Meyer Howard), 1912-2015. (London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1971)
Introduction: Orientation of critical theories -- Imitation and the mirror -- Romantic analogues of art and mind -- Development of the expressive theory of poetry and art -- Varieties of romantic theory, Wordsworth and Coleridge -- Varieties of romantic theory, Shelley, Hazlitt, Keble, and others -- Psychology of literary invention, mechanical and organic theories -- Psychology of literary invention, unconscious genius and organic growth -- Literature as a revelation of personality -- Criterion of truth to nature, romance, myth, and metaphor -- Science and poetry in romantic criticism.
Includes bibliography and index.
Keywords: Romanticism; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, -- 1772-1834.