Critical History of English Literature, Volume 1

achieve Arnold attitude ballad beauty Blake blank verse Byron century character Coleridge colloquial combination comedy comic contemporary criticism D. H. Lawrence death deliberately developed Dickens dramatic E. M. Forster effect eighteenth-century Eliot emotional England English English poetry essays experience feeling fiction French Revolution George Eliot give hero human ideal ideas imagery images imagination individual influence intellectual interest irony Keats kind language literary literature living meaning medieval melodrama mind modern mood moral movement moving narrative nature neo-Platonic never nineteenth novel novelist passion pattern plays poem poet poetic poetry political Pre-Raphaelite present problems produced prose reader relation rhythms romantic romanticism Ruskin satire scene sense sentimental Shelley shows significant social society sometimes stanza story style suggestion symbolic T. S. Eliot Tennyson theme things thought tion tone tradition verse Victorian Virginia Woolf vision W. S. Gilbert whole words Wordsworth writing Yeats