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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/10944
Title: Herbert Read As A Twentieth-Century Romantic Poet
Authors: Ryan, Leila W.M.
Advisor: Bishop, Alan
Department: English
Keywords: English Language and Literature;English Language and Literature
Publication Date: Sep-1983
Abstract: <p>Herbert Read's avowed aim to "rehabilitate" Romanticism resulted in a literary criticism which defended his own practice as a poet. While his poetry was Romantic in its concentration on the imagination and the power of Nature, it demonstrated a serious problem with the Romantic ideal of the expression of the self. His war poetry, as the poetry of a significant shaping experience, can be seen as demonstrating, with a particular clarity, that difficulty in all three phases: the poetry written during the War, the poetic summation of the Great War in The End of a War, and finally the poetry written in reaction to war from 1936 onward. Read's reluctance to confront the matter of confessional expression in poetry is clearly demonstrated in his poems that take as subject the world beyond war. A constant theme in this poetry, free of concern with war, is the conflict between reason and imagination; a conflict which resolves itself into the paradox of a Romantic denial of the self.</p>
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/10944
Identifier: opendissertations/5952
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