LEADER 03134oam 22005054a 450 001 9910524682603321 005 20241204165259.0 010 $a0-8018-1050-7 010 $a1-4214-3059-2 035 $a(CKB)4100000010460770 035 $a(OCoLC)1117488400 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse78126 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88835 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC29138869 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL29138869 035 $a(oapen)doab88835 035 $a(OCoLC)1526862569 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010460770 100 $a20691126d1969 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aArnold's Poetic Landscapes 205 $a1st ed. 210 $cJohns Hopkins University Press$d2019 210 1$aBaltimore,$cJohns Hopkins Press$d[1969] 210 4$dİ[1969] 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 268 p.) 311 08$a1-4214-3099-1 311 08$a1-4214-3014-2 320 $aBibliographical footnotes. 327 $aCover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Method of Citation -- Introduction -- Arnold's Poetics -- Varieties of Landscape Poetry -- Landscape in 1849 -- Landscape in 1852 -- Mount Etna -- The Cumnor Hills -- Various Landscapes -- Appendix: Arnold's Volumes of 1849, 1852, 1853, and 1867 -- Index. 330 $aOriginally published in 1969. Alan Roper studies the degree to which Arnold achieved a unity of human significance and literal landscape. If landscape poetry is to rise above the level of what Roper calls "country contentments in verse," the poet cannot think and describe alternately; his thinking and describing must be a part of one another. That Matthew Arnold was aware of the difficulty in achieving the necessary unity becomes clear in his own criticism, which Roper examines along with a large and representative number of Arnold's poems. Considering the latter roughly in the order they were published?except for a fuller analysis of Empedocles on Etna, "The Scholar-Gipsy," and "Thyrsis"?Roper follows important changes in Arnold's view of the function and nature of poetry as it emerged in the poems themselves. Basic to the author's critical method is a distinction between geographical sites and poetic landscapes. Focusing on the ways that Arnold and, to a lesser extent, the Augustan and Romantic poets before him untied thought and description, Roper adds a critical dimension to Arnold scholarship. Concerned not with the development of Arnold's ideas nor with their sources in classical antiquity and the Romantic period, he considers Arnold a self-conscious poet who, though sometimes successful, became increasingly unsuccessful in his efforts to imbue a landscape with meaning for individual or social man. 606 $aNature in literature 615 0$aNature in literature. 676 $a821/.8 700 $aRoper$b Alan$0193696 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524682603321 996 $aArnold's Poetic Landscapes$92772170 997 $aUNINA