The Correspondent Breeze: Essays on English Romanticism by.

The essays examine Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s innovations in their theories about the language of poetry; the prevalence, sources, and significance of a key Romantic image, the “correspondent breeze”; the pervasive revolutionary spirit of Romanticism; the defining characteristics and chief exemplars of the most distinctive poetic genre of the age, the “greater Romantic lyric.

Romanticism: critical concepts in literary and cultural studies. Responsibility. Abrams - English Romanticism: The Spirit of the Age', in his The Correspondent Breeze: Essays on English Romanticism (New York: Norton-- 1984), pp. 44-75--5. Harold Bloom - The Internalization of Quest-Romance', in Romanticism and Consciousness: Essays in.

One of the deans of literary criticism in America, M. H. Abrams is Class of 1916 Professor of English at Cornell University. He is the author of two landmark books, The Mirror and the Lamp and Natural Supernaturalism, and general editor of the Norton Anthology of English Literature. This volume collects the essays, written over three decades, which-together with his books-testify to his.

Abstract. Imre Salusinszky’s Criticism in Society is the post-modern moment in the history of the “function of criticism at the present time” polemic: politically correct, theoretically extreme, relentlessly dialogic, and self-congratulatory in its self-reference. A series of interviews conducted by Salusinszky with nine members of the literary-theoretical establishment (Jacques Derrida.

In addition to “A Glossary of Literary Terms” (1957), a standard work for undergraduates that has gone through many editions, Dr. Abrams wrote “The Correspondent Breeze: Essays on English.

Meyer (Mike) Howard Abrams (born July 23, 1912) is an American literary critic, known for works on Romanticism, in particular his book The Mirror and the Lamp. Under Abrams' editorship, the Norton Anthology of English Literature became the standard text for undergraduate survey courses across the U.S. and a major trendsetter in literary canon formation.

These two books are supplemented by several major essays collected in The Correspondent Breeze (1984), and in particular by “Structure and Style in the Greater Romantic Lyric.” In the introduction to The Mirror and the Lamp, Abrams constructs a taxonomic model encompassing, he suggests, all possible forms of literary theory.

The Correspondent Breeze: essays on English Romanticism (1984) ISBN 978-0-393-30340-7 Doing Things with Texts: essays in criticism and critical theory (1989) ISBN 978-0-393-02713-6 The Fourth Dimension of a Poem and Other Essays (2012) ISBN 978-0-393-05830-7.

Get this from a library! English romantic poets: modern essays in criticism. (M H Abrams) -- Compiles critical essays on the Romantic Age and the individual works of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.

The correspondent breeze: essays on English romanticism M.H. Abrams; with a foreword by Jack Stillinger Norton, c1984.

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