Title: Romantic consciousness : Blake to Mary Shelley /
Authors: Beer, John B.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Knowledge Psychology.; Blake, William, Knowledge Psychology.; English literature History and criticism; Consciousness in literature.; Romanticism Great Britain
Abstract: "In the first of two studies, John Beer traces the Romantic perception that rational consciousness could not adequately represent all that was implicit in the human psyche, and the consequent invocation of a human sense of 'Being' - related either to the Divine Being or to a universal spirit - as supplement."--Jacket.
Contents: Consciousness and the Mystery of Being -- Blakes Fear of Non Entity -- Coleridge, Wordsworth and 'Unknown Modes of Being' -- Keats and the Highgate Nightingales -- De Quincey and the Dark Sublime -- Tennyson, the Cambridge Apostles and the Nature of 'Reality' -- Shelley and Byron: Polarities of Being -- Mary Shelley's Mediation -- Appendix: Wordsworth's Later Sense of Being.