The Concept of Nature in Nineteenth-Century English Poetry

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• Title Page iii
• Acknowledgments vii
• Contents ix
• The Concept of Nature In Nineteenth-Century English Poetry 1
• Chapter I - Introduction and Conclusion 3
• Part One - The Romantic Period 29
• Chapter II The Forms of Nature 31
• Chapter III: The Metaphysical Concept of Nature 45
• Chapter IV - Wordsworth's Naturalism 110
• Chapter V - Wordsworth and Nature's Teaching 158
• Chapter VI - Nature in Wordsworth: Summary 202
• Chapter VII - Shelley's Naturalism 209
• Chapter VIII - Shelley's "Platonism" 242
• Chapter IX - Goethe 276
• Part Two - Transcendentalism 299
• Chapter X - Carlyle 301

• Title Page iii
• Acknowledgments vii
• Contents ix
• The Concept of Nature In Nineteenth-Century English Poetry 1
• Chapter I - Introduction and Conclusion 3
• Part One - The Romantic Period 29
• Chapter II The Forms of Nature 31
• Chapter III: The Metaphysical Concept of Nature 45
• Chapter IV - Wordsworth's Naturalism 110
• Chapter V - Wordsworth and Nature's Teaching 158
• Chapter VI - Nature in Wordsworth: Summary 202
• Chapter VII - Shelley's Naturalism 209
• Chapter VIII - Shelley's "Platonism" 242
• Chapter IX - Goethe 276
• Part Two - Transcendentalism 299
• Chapter X - Carlyle 301
• Chapter XI - Coleridge, Emerson, and Naturalism 318
• Chapter XII - Emerson's Nature-Poetry 346
• Chapter XIII - Whitman 370
• Part Three - The Victorians 395
• Chapter XIV - Arnold 397
• Chapter XV Tennyson 406
• Chapter XVI - Browning 435
• Chapter XVII - Swinburne 455
• Chapter XVIII - Meredith 470
• Part Four - Disappearance of the Concept of Nature 501
• Chapter XIX - Hardy 503
• Chapter XX - Victorian Afterglow 522
• Chapter XXI - The Vanishing Point 547
• Notes 561
• Index 613