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Tables of Contents for The Mirror and the Lamp
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
Introduction: Orientation of Critical Theories
3
27
Some Co-ordinates of Art Criticism
6
2
Mimetic Theories
8
6
Pragmatic Theories
14
7
Expressive Theories
21
5
Objective Theories
26
4
Imitation and the Mirror
30
17
Art Is Like a Mirror
31
4
The Objects of Imitation: the Empirical Ideal
35
7
The Transcendental Ideal
42
5
Romantic Analogues of Art and Mind
47
23
Metaphors of Expression
48
5
Emotion and the Objects of Poetry
53
4
Changing Metaphors of Mind
57
13
The Development of the Expressive Theory of Poetry and Art
70
30
Si vis me flere...
71
1
Longinus and the Longinians
72
6
Primitive Language and Primitive Poetry
78
6
The Lyric as Poetic Norm
84
4
Expressive Theory in Germany: Ut Musica Poesis
88
7
Wordsworth, Blair, and the Enquirer
95
2
Expressive Theory and Expressive Practice
97
3
Varieties of Romantic Theory: Wordsworth and Coleridge
100
25
Wordsworth and the Eighteenth Century
103
11
Coleridge on Poems, Poetry, and Poets
114
11
Varieties of Romantic Theory: Shelley, Hazlitt, Keble, and Others
125
31
Shelley and Romantic Platonism
126
6
Longinus, Hazlitt, Keats, and the Criterion of Intensity
132
6
Poetry as Catharsis: John Keble and Others
138
10
The Semantics of Expressive Language: Alexander Smith
148
8
The Psychology of Literary Invention: Mechanical and Organic Theories
156
28
The Mechanical Theory of Literary Invention
159
8
Coleridge's Mechanical Fancy and Organic Imagination
167
10
The Associative Imagination in the Romantic Period
177
7
The Psychology of Literary Invention: Unconscious Genius and Organic Growth
184
42
Natural Genius, Inspiration, and Grace
187
11
Natural Genius and Natural Growth in Eighteenth-Century England
198
3
German Theories of Vegetable Genius
201
12
Unconscious Invention in English Criticism
213
5
Coleridge and the Aesthetics of Organism
218
8
Literature as a Revelation of Personality
226
37
Style and the Man
229
6
Subjective and Objective, and Romantic Polysemism
235
6
Subjective and Objective in English Theory
241
3
The Paradox of Shakespeare
244
6
Milton, Satan, and Eve
250
6
The Key to Homer's Heart
256
7
The Criterion of Truth to Nature: Romance, Myth, and Metaphor
263
35
Truth and the Poetic Marvelous
265
3
The Logic of Deviation from Empirical Truth
268
4
The Poem as Heterocosm
272
13
Poetic Truth and Metaphor
285
5
Wordsworth and Coleridge on Personification and Myth
290
8
Science and Poetry in Romantic Criticism
298
39
Positivism vs. Poetry
300
3
Newton's Rainbow and the Poet's
303
9
Poetic Truth and Sincerity
312
8
Poetry as neither True nor False
320
6
The Use of Romantic Poetry
326
11
Notes
337
56
Index
393