Fables of Identity: Studies in Poetic MythologyIn this outstanding collection of sixteen essays, the world-renowned critic and scholar discusses various works in the central tradition of English mythopoeic poetry, paying particular attention to the centrality of Romanticism. |
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... conventional , and held in common with all other works of the same category . When we begin , say , Pride and Prejudice , we can see at once that a story which sustains that particular mood or tone is most unlikely to end in tragedy or ...
... conventional , and held in common with all other works of the same category . When we begin , say , Pride and Prejudice , we can see at once that a story which sustains that particular mood or tone is most unlikely to end in tragedy or ...
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... conventional or recurring form , of the same family as Shelley's Adonais , the Daphnis of Theocritus and Virgil , and Milton's own Damon . King was also a clergyman and , for Milton's purposes , a poet , so , having selected the ...
... conventional or recurring form , of the same family as Shelley's Adonais , the Daphnis of Theocritus and Virgil , and Milton's own Damon . King was also a clergyman and , for Milton's purposes , a poet , so , having selected the ...
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... conventional notions of what poetry ought to be like , and the conventional notions of Emily Dickinson's day were that poetry should be close to prose in its grammar and syntax , and that its vocabulary should be more refined than that ...
... conventional notions of what poetry ought to be like , and the conventional notions of Emily Dickinson's day were that poetry should be close to prose in its grammar and syntax , and that its vocabulary should be more refined than that ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Archetypes of Literature | 7 |
Myth Fiction and Displacement | 21 |
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