The Active Universe: Pantheism And The Concept Of Imagination In The English Romantic Poets (Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism)

This book is a study of ?omantic Pantheism' and its part in the development of the Romantic theory of the Imagination. The crucial point in the history of English Romanticism came when the philosophical concept of the ?ctive universe' met the developing theory of the Imagination. In its leading sense, Imagination meant full response to, and implication with, the living qualities of natural objects. That is why it was able to assimilate and transform contemporary theories of merely passing interest into an important poetic approach to the universe.

• • Author: H. W. Piper
• • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• • Publication Date: May 08, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 243 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1472514718
• • ISBN-13: 9781472514714