Description
Book SynopsisDespite their hopeful aspirations to wholeness in life and spirit, Thomas McFarland contends, the Romantics were ruins amidst ruins," fragments of human existence in a disintegrating world. Focusing on Wordsworth and Coleridge, Professor McFarland shows how this was true not only for each of these Romantics in particular but also for Romanticism in
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. ix*Preface, pg. xi*Key to Brief Titles Cited, pg. xv*Introduction. Fragmented Modalities and the Criteria of Romanticism, pg. 1*Chapter One. The Symbiosis of Coleridge and Wordsworth, pg. 56*Chapter Two. Coleridge's Anxiety, pg. 104*Chapter Three. The Significant Group: Wordsworth's Fears in Solitude, pg. 137*Chapter Four. Problems of Style in the Poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge, pg. 216*First Landing Place. Poetry and the Poem: The Structure of Poetic Content, pg. 255*Chapter Five. A Complex Dialogue: Coleridge's Doctrine of Polarity and Its European Contexts, pg. 289*Chapter Six. The Psychic Economy and Cultural Meaning of Coleridge's Magnum Opus, pg. 342*Second Landing Place. The Place Beyond the Heavens: True Being, Transcendence, and the Symbolic Indication of Wholeness, pg. 382*Index, pg. 419
