The Mirror and the Lamp Romantic Theory and

This highly acclaimed study analyzes the various trends in English criticism during the first four decades of this century.

Preface

vii

Introduction: Orientation of Critical Theories

3

(27)

Some Co-ordinates of Art Criticism

6

(2)

Mimetic Theories

8

(6)

Pragmatic Theories

14

(7)

Expressive Theories

21

(5)

Objective Theories

26

(4)

Imitation and the Mirror

30

(17)

Art Is Like a Mirror

31

(4)

The Objects of Imitation: the Empirical Ideal

35

(7)

The Transcendental Ideal

42

(5)

Romantic Analogues of Art and Mind

47

(23)

Metaphors of Expression

48

(5)

Emotion and the Objects of Poetry

53

(4)

Changing Metaphors of Mind

57

(13)

The Development of the Expressive Theory of Poetry and Art

70

(30)

Si vis me flere...

71

(1)

Longinus and the Longinians

72

(6)

Primitive Language and Primitive Poetry

78

(6)

The Lyric as Poetic Norm

84

(4)

Expressive Theory in Germany: Ut Musica Poesis

88

(7)

Wordsworth, Blair, and the Enquirer

95

(2)

Expressive Theory and Expressive Practice

97

(3)

Varieties of Romantic Theory: Wordsworth and Coleridge

100

(25)

Wordsworth and the Eighteenth Century

103

(11)

Coleridge on Poems, Poetry, and Poets

114

(11)

Varieties of Romantic Theory: Shelley, Hazlitt, Keble, and Others

125

(31)

Shelley and Romantic Platonism

126

(6)

Longinus, Hazlitt, Keats, and the Criterion of Intensity

132

(6)

Poetry as Catharsis: John Keble and Others

138

(10)

The Semantics of Expressive Language: Alexander Smith

148

(8)

The Psychology of Literary Invention: Mechanical and Organic Theories

156

(28)

The Mechanical Theory of Literary Invention

159

(8)

Coleridge's Mechanical Fancy and Organic Imagination

167

(10)

The Associative Imagination in the Romantic Period

177

(7)

The Psychology of Literary Invention: Unconscious Genius and Organic Growth

184

(42)

Natural Genius, Inspiration, and Grace

187

(11)

Natural Genius and Natural Growth in Eighteenth-Century England

198

(3)

German Theories of Vegetable Genius

201

(12)

Unconscious Invention in English Criticism

213

(5)

Coleridge and the Aesthetics of Organism

218

(8)

Literature as a Revelation of Personality

226

(37)

Style and the Man

229

(6)

Subjective and Objective, and Romantic Polysemism

235

(6)

Subjective and Objective in English Theory

241

(3)

The Paradox of Shakespeare

244

(6)

Milton, Satan, and Eve

250

(6)

The Key to Homer's Heart

256

(7)

The Criterion of Truth to Nature: Romance, Myth, and Metaphor

263

(35)

Truth and the Poetic Marvelous

265

(3)

The Logic of Deviation from Empirical Truth

268

(4)

The Poem as Heterocosm

272

(13)

Poetic Truth and Metaphor

285

(5)

Wordsworth and Coleridge on Personification and Myth

290

(8)

Science and Poetry in Romantic Criticism

298

(39)

Positivism vs. Poetry

300

(3)

Newton's Rainbow and the Poet's

303

(9)

Poetic Truth and Sincerity

312

(8)

Poetry as neither True nor False

320

(6)

The Use of Romantic Poetry

326

(11)

Notes

337

(56)

Index

393

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