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Benares Hindu University Lectures. Keats and Spencer

1944

The brilliant city visible to Recicrosse from the top of the Hill of Contemplation* may stand for Heavenly Jerusalem as painted in the Book of Revelation ; it has also been interpreted as Supreme Beauty or the vast sea of Beauty, the last rung of the ladder of ascent in the Symposium. [...] Sense and reason, Paganism and Christianity, the life of strenuous activity and of intellectual culture, the bold, fiery warrior and the quiet ascetic, the courtier and the scholar, the brilliant pageantry of the English capital and the silence of the trackless forests in Ireland equally inspired him. [...] The exile in Ireland under the stern influence of the Puritanical Lord Lieutenant entertained more serious thoughts than he did in the years that followed Grey's retirement. " Similarly the progress of his wooing of Elizabeth Boyle is reflected in the Amoretti and Epithalamion, while the Heavenly Hymns have to be traced to the despondency of an unsuccessful courtier and the bitter grief of a ruine [...] The problems on the solution of which depended the future of England as one of the great powers of Europe, did not interest the poet who was enraptured with the vision of the golden age. [...] Nothing was a very sure refuge for the minds of the younger men—and especially of the younger poets—but the beauty of the visible world as revealed and made enduring in mediaeval art. "* In addition, the spiri- tuality of the mediaeval times and of Catholicism served as an anodyne to the materialism of the age.
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Pages
183
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100014
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-v M.M. Bhattacherjee view
Preface
vii-viii M.M. Bhattacherjee view
Chapter I. Eclecticism and Idealism in Spenser
1-34 unknown view
Chapter II. Spenser and the Pre-Raphaelites
35-66 unknown view
Chapter III. Keats and Spenser
67-100 unknown view
Chapter IV. Platonic Ideas in “ Endybuon ”
101-134 unknown view
Chapter V. Keats and Psycho-Analysis
135-169 unknown view
Bibliography
170-173 unknown view
Index
i-iii unknown view

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