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The mirror and the lamp: romantic theory and the critical tradition.
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The mirror and the lamp: romantic theory and the critical tradition.

Author: M H Abrams
Publisher: New York, Norton [1958, ©1953]
Series: The Norton library
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Abrams, M. H. (Meyer Howard), 1912-
Mirror and the lamp: romantic theory and the critical tradition.
New York, Norton [1958, c1953]
(OCoLC)646914684
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: M H Abrams
OCLC Number: 1902367
Description: xi, 406 p. 21 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Orientation of critical theories --
Imitation and the mirror --
Romantic analogues of art and mind --
The development of the expressive theory of poetry and art --
Varieties of romantic theory: Wordsworth and Coleridge --
Varieties of romantic theory: Shelley, Hazlitt, Keble and others --
The psychology of literary intervention: Mechanical and organic theories --
The psychology of literary invention: unconscious genius and organic growth --
Literature as a revelation of personality --
The criterion of truth to nature: romance, myth and metaphor.
Series Title: The Norton library

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