The Dreamer of the Castle of Indolence
The Dreamer of the Castle of Indolence

Author: Bertram Dobell

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-24

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 9781333346539

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Excerpt from The Dreamer of the Castle of Indolence: And Other Poems My father's editorial work in connection with James Thomson Shelley, Lamb, Traherne, and Strode occupied much of the time he was able to spare for literature, and would alone be enough to keep his name in remembrance; but when it can be viewed as a whole I feel sure his original work is sufficient, both in bulk and distinctive merit, to warrant the hope that it will give his name a still higher rank, and assure for him a permanent reputation as a poet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Majestic Indolence
Majestic Indolence

Author: Willard Spiegelman

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0195093569

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Majestic Indolence examines the theme of indolence - in both its positive and negative forms - as it appears in the work of four canonical Romantic poets. Wordsworth's "wise passiveness", Coleridge's "dejection" and numbing torpor, Shelley's experiments with pastoral dolce far niente, and Keats's figures of "delicious diligent indolence" are treated as individual manifestations of a common theme. Spiegelman pursues the trope of indolence to its origins in the economic, medical, philosophical, psychological, religious, and literary discourses from the middle ages to the late eighteenth century. Offering an alternative to recent politically and ideologically motivated literary theory, Spiegelman looks closely at how the poems work. He argues for renewed appreciation of poetic style, literary formalism, and aesthetics as the best gauge to the Romantic treatment of nature and the sublime. The book concludes by examining the transformation of English Romanticism at the hands of two American heirs, Walt Whitman and Robert Frost.