This study examines words used for colour as they appear in the work of some of the nineteenth century poets, which opens the way to a discussion of the relation in nineteenth century poems between language, experience and value. The author traces in each of the poets Keats, Browning and Hopkins the forging of language that mediates between a system of values and the flux of experience. Colour words become crucial indicators of a way of looking at the world that defines the poetry of the nineteenth century. Richard Cronin is author of "Shelley's Poetic Thoughts".
- ISBN10 0333443373
- ISBN13 9780333443378
- Publish Date September 1988
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 January 1993
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English