Romantic fiat
Subtitle: demystification and enchantment in lyric poetry
By: Eric Reid Lindstrom
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Basingstoke, Hampshire [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780230282360
Subjects: History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; English poetry; Romanticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-256) and index.
Table of contents: title: Fiat in lyric; title: Giving commands and letting go. Romanticism and 'exaggeration of thought' ; The command to nature ; Wordsworth's useless fiat in 'The old Cumberland beggar'; title: Ontology and the lyric. Between cant and anguish : Hume in Coleridge's Imagination ; Wordsworth and the beautiful day; title: Blessing cursing. Contracting Obi : Shelley's cosmopolitanism and the curse of poetry ; Paper money poets; title: Coda : nature poets and fiat money.