Romantic Confusions of the Good Beauty as Truth, Truth Beauty

by Montgomery, Marion

• ISBN13: 9780847683949
• ISBN10: 084768394X
• Format: Paperback
• 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.

Author Biography

Marion Montgomery is professor emeritus of English at the University of Georgia.

Table of Contents

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