The Reflective Journey Toward Order: Essays on Dante, Wordsworth, Eliot, and Others

by Marion Montgomery

Book Overview

This book embodies a sequence of closely related essays which explore the modern poet's uneasy awareness of a tradition-the romantic tradition-with which he must contend. The author's premise is that the romantic age extends from The Divine Comedy through Wordsworth to Eliot. The roots of contemporary questions about the self and alienation are seen to extend at least as far back as Dante, who is the first poet to choose the ego as a focus...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082033197X
• ISBN13: 9780820331973
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"