Author | : Leon Gottfried |
File Size | : 46,9 Mb |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 31 March 2016 |
ISBN | : 9781317278047 |
Pages | : 217 pages |
Matthew Arnold and the Romantics by Leon Gottfried Book PDF Summary
First published in 1963. Matthew Arnold grew up under the personal as well as literary influence of Wordsworth, when Keats, Shelley, and Byron were dominant poetic forces and Coleridge a seminal thinker on social and religious problems. However, the great Romantics were not always positive influences. This study attempts to provide an examination of Arnold by exploring and evaluating the full range of Arnold’s reactions to the major Romantic poets over his whole career. This title will be of interest to students of literature.