Borrowed Imagination: The British Romantic Poets and Their Arabic-Islamic Sources Contributor(s): Attar, Samar (Author) |
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ISBN: 0739187619 ISBN-13: 9780739187616 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $140.58 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Middle Eastern - Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature |
Dewey: 821.709 |
LCCN: 2013046484 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.05 lbs) 246 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Middle East - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
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Publisher Description: Borrowed Imagination: The British Romantic Poets and Their Arabic-Islamic Sources examines masterpieces of English Romantic poetry and shows the Arabic and Islamic sources that inspired Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake, Shelley, Keats, and Byron when composing their poems in the eighteenth, or early nineteenth century. Critics have documented Greek and Roman sources but turned a blind eye to nonwestern materials at a time when the romantic poets were reading them. The book shows how the Arabic-Islamic sources had helped the British Romantic Poets not only in finding their own voices, but also their themes, metaphors, symbols, characters and images. The British Romantic Poets and Their Arabic-Islamic Sources is of interest to scholars in English and comparative literature, literary studies, philosophy, religion, government, history, cultural, and Middle Eastern studies and the general public. |