Romantic Confusions of the Good Beauty as Truth, Truth Beauty

by Montgomery, Marion

• ISBN13: 9780847683932
• ISBN10: 0847683931
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-05-22
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

With special attention to the Romantic poets from Wordsworth and Coleridge down to Pound and Eliot, distinguished scholar Marion Montgomery explores the disorientation of image and metaphor from reality. The book focuses on the virtues and limits of the intuitive intellect as they are explicated by Thomas Aquinas in relational intellect, and the 'Romantic' poet's dependence upon the intuitive and rational modes of intellectual action, two species of 'romanticism' centering in presumptuous autonomy emerge: that of the poet and that of the scientist.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix	(2)
Dedication	xi	(1)
Preface	xii	(9)
Introduction: Narcissus and the Waters of Being	xxi
1 Mind as Its Own Place	1	(18)
2 Our Dark Woods Since Dante	19	(14)
3 Attribution: The Poet's Exercise in Confusing Proportionality	33	(10)
4 Person in Suspense, between Thought and Feeling	43	(8)
5 Person and the Personal, from Wordsworth to J. Alfred Prufrock	51	(12)
6 The Pleasure of Notion, the Terror of Vision: Concerning Wallace Stevens and T. S. Eliot	63	(14)
7 Beauty, toward Beatitude	77	(12)
8 The Poet, Speaking like a Child	89	(8)
9 Words and Tinker Toys	97	(10)
10 Hobbes Hints Blue, Poets Blue the World	107	(16)
11 Floating Transcendentals out of "Finite Centers"	123	(14)
12 The Poet, Indifferently Pruning His Nails	137	(8)
13 Reflections, the Trimmings of Reality	145	(8)
14 Thought and the Suicide of the Self: From Descartes to Dr. Kevorkian	153	(12)
15 The Still Point: A Light in Reality	165	(8)
16 Things as They Are Versus the Poet's Blue Guitar	173	(10)
17 The Poet as Drowning Emperor, His Clarion Signs	183	(12)
18 The Fitful Moment--Fading, Fading...	195	(12)
Afterword: The Way it Was, the Way It Is	207	(12)
Endnotes	219	(10)
Index	229	(10)
About the Author	239