Language As Living Form In Nineteenth-Century Poetry

Armstrong proposes a theory of the language of 19th- century poetry derived from Romantic philosophy in this highly original and important new study. Partial contents: Wordsworth's complexity: Prelude (1805), Book VI; Blakes's simplicity: Jerusalem, Chapter 1; Shelley's perplexity: Prometheus Unbound; Browning, the fracture of subject and object: Sordello, Book III; Tennyson, the collapse of object and subject: In Memoriam