These studies are connected by common underlying themes: the sense of Providence, the growing awareness of its loss in the nineteenth century and the pressure on the ideal of Romantic love as that came increasingly to be treated as a substitute. Investigation of these matters has led to close scrutiny of various manuscripts in British and American libraries, certain of which, including some letters of George Eliot recently discovered in Cambridge, are reproduced here for the first time.

Providence and Love: Studies in Wordsworth, Channing, Myers, George Eliot, and Ruskin

Literature & Fiction

Beer, John

British & Irish

Clarendon Press

Eminent Coleridgean scholar John Beer presents a series of biographical investigations exploring Coleridge's life, stage by stage, and reconsidering the intellectual quality of his thinking and poetry through an emphasis on the notion of 'play'. Beginning and ending with brief accounts of the poet's childhood and last years, the book's twelve chapters each take a passage of Coleridge's life and characterise the nature and function of an abiding playful element in his consciousness. In combination they form a detailed, full, and humane treatment of Coleridge's life, focusing on topics such as his interest in psychology, his poetry, his literary collaboration with William and Dorothy Wordsworth, his hopeless love for William's sister-in-law, his literary criticism, including a new approach to Shakespeare, and his work towards a refreshing of contemporary religious beliefs and practices.

Coleridge's Play of Mind

Oxford University Press

'...a significant, wide-ranging study...Above all, the book restores a salutary sense of the value of, and the difficult poise involved in, creative acts.' - Michael O'Neill, Durham University Taken together, these interlinked studies on topics such as the literary influences at work in the 1790s, Newman's resistance to Romantic ideas, the exact nature of Virginia Woolf's debt to Walter Pater and the counter-Romanticism of Lawrence and Eliot constitute a large reading of Romanticism from 1789 to our own day. They also throw light on the complex workings of influence itself, not least by showing how writers used images of fluency to describe their own creative processes.

Romantic Influences: Contemporary, Victorian, Modern

History & Criticism

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Coleridge's Variety: Bicentenary Studies.

Macmillan

A Passage to India

The contributors to this book interpret, from different points of view, what is believed by most to be Forster's finest work, resulting in a remarkably clear discussion of a complex book. Different aspects of the workóthe social and political elements, the work as symbolic statement, intricacies of the languageóare covered.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

The contributors to this book interpret, from different points of view, what is believed by most to be Forster's finest work, resulting in a remarkably clear discussion of a complex book. Different aspects of the work-the social and political elements, the work as symbolic statement, intricacies of the language-are covered.

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Since the rise of scientific thinking in the seventeenth century the role of the imagination in literature has been a matter for debate. Is it an essential resource, or a treacherous purveyor of illusions? In this lecture Professor Beer suggests that one result of this uncertainty has been to set up a divison (which continues to pervade literary enterprises) between imaginative flights on the one hand and the "weighing of words" on the other. His examples are drawn from a wide range of writers, including Johnson, Dickens, Hopkins, Woolf and Wordsworth.

Against Finality: Inaugural Lecture, Delivered 4th February 1993

Cambridge University Press

The repercussions of the French Revolution included erosion of many previously held certainties in Britain, as in the rest of Europe. Even the authority of language as a cornerstone of knowledge was called into question and the founding principles of intellectual disciplines challenged, as Romantic writers developed new ways of expressing their philosophy of the imagination and the human heart. This book traces the impact of revolution on language, from William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, to William Hazlitt, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot. A leading scholar in Romantic literature and theology, John Beer offers a persuasive new account of post-revolutionary continuities between the major Romantic writers and their Victorian successors.

Romanticism, Revolution and Language: The Fate of the Word from Samuel Johnson to George Eliot

Blake's Visionary Universe

Manchester University Press

William Blake (Writers and Their Work)

Liverpool University Press

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Providence and Love: Studies in Wordsworth, Channing, Myers, George Eliot, and Ruskin

Coleridge's Play of Mind

Romantic Influences: Contemporary, Victorian, Modern

Coleridge's Variety: Bicentenary Studies.

A Passage to India

A Passage to India

Against Finality: Inaugural Lecture, Delivered 4th February 1993

Romanticism, Revolution and Language: The Fate of the Word from Samuel Johnson to George Eliot

Blake's Visionary Universe

William Blake (Writers and Their Work)