A longing like despair : Arnold's poetry of pessimism

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A longing like despair : Arnold's poetry of pessimism

Title remainder

Arnold's poetry of pessimism

Statement of responsibility

Alan Grob

Creator

• Grob, Alan, 1932-2007

Subject

• Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Despair in literature
• Pessimism in literature

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

• "Though critics of Arnold have long recognized the profound bleakness of his poetry, its tragic view of life, Alan Grob's A Longing Like Despair is the first book-length study that takes that dark vision as the interpretive key to the poetry and as justification for Matthew Arnold's claim to be in the vanguard of an emergent modernity
• A major aim of Grob's study is to show Arnold as poet to be possessed of far greater philosophic depth and subtlety than his critics have usually credited him with by identifying the deep affinities and shared weltanschauung of his poetic vision with the metaphysical pessimism of Schopenhauer, the major European philosopher whose insistence on the cosmic opposition between the world as will and the world as idea provided the most important philosophic alternative in the nineteenth century to the age's otherwise dominant progressive historicism."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

821/.8

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

PR4024

LC item number

.G76 2002

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography