The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism

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• Pope - of whose poetry Wordsworth knew thousands of lines by heart - uses the phrase "The language of the heart," and Wordsworth, nostalgically, speaks of "The language of my former heart" as he attributes to Dorothy the "shooting lights" and the natural eyes associated with Enlightenment. (查看原文)

  魏玛注销局地勤 2013-10-03 16:38:06

• But if we say that Romanticism was the revolutionary reawakening of Enlightenment, we need to recognize that revolution meant something dif-ferent in 1800 from now. The word meant a turning back before it meant a turning away. In the seventeenth-century revolution was the opposite, not the consequence of rebellion, and it retained some of these connotations even into the nineteenth century. (查看原文)

  魏玛注销局地勤 2013-10-03 17:14:40