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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450343303321

Autore

Kermode Frank <1919-2010., >

Titolo

Romantic image / / Frank Kermode ; with a new epilogue by the author

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

9786612777899

1-282-77789-0

1-134-50614-7

0-203-16706-6

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Collana

Routledge Classics

Disciplina

801.95

821/.809145

Soggetti

Artists in literature

Criticism

History

History and criticism

Poetry, Modern

Romanticism

Theory, etc

Yeats, W. B

Poetry, Modern - History and criticism - Theory, etc - 20th century

Criticism - History

Languages & Literatures

Literature - General

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 1957 by Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Romantic Image; Copyright; Contents; Preface; A Note on the Frontispiece; Part I: Dancer and Tree; 1. The Artist in Isolation; 2. 'In Memory of Major Robert Gregory'; 3. The Image; 4 .The Dancer; 5. The Tree; Part II: The Twentieth Century; 6. Arthur Symons; 7. T. E. Hulme; 8. 'Dissociation of Sensibility'; 9. Conclusion; Epilogue; Index

Sommario/riassunto

For the past four decades Frank Kermode, critic and writer, has steadily



established himself as one of the most brilliant minds of his generation. Author and editor of over forty books, his prodigious output includes some of the best literary criticism to be published. Questioning the public's harsh perception of 'the artist', Kermode at the same time gently pokes fun at artists' own, often inflated, self-image. He identifies what has become one of the defining characteristics of the Romantic tradition - the artist in isolation and the emerging power of the imagination. The ingeniousness of Ke