Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 4. Naturalism in England

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Георг Брандес. Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 4. Naturalism in England

Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 4. Naturalism in England

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INTRODUCTION

NATURALISM IN ENGLAND

I. UNIVERSAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PERIOD

II. NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS

III. THE POLITICAL BACKGROUND

IV. THE BEGINNINGS OF NATURALISM

V. STRENGTH AND SINCERITY OF THE LOVE OF NATURE

VI. RURAL LIFE AND ITS POETRY

VII. NATURALISTIC ROMANTICISM

VIII. THE LAKE SCHOOL'S CONCEPTION OF LIBERTY

IX. THE LAKE SCHOOL'S ORIENTAL ROMANTICISM

X. HISTORICAL NATURALISM

XI. ALL-EMBRACING SENSUOUSNESS

XII. THE POETRY OF IRISH OPPOSITION AND REVOLT

XIII. EROTIC LYRIC POETRY

XIV. THE BRITISH SPIRIT OF FREEDOM

XV. REPUBLICAN HUMANISM

XVI. RADICAL NATURALISM

XVII. BYRON: THE PASSIONATE PERSONALITY

XVIII. BYRON: THE PASSIONATE PERSONALITY—(Continued)

XIX. BYRON: HIS SELF-ABSORPTION

XX. BYRON: THE REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT

XXI. COMIC AND TRAGIC REALISM

XXII. CULMINATION OF NATURALISM

XXXIII. BYRON'S DEATH

XXIV. CONCLUSION

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Georg Brandes

Published by Good Press, 2021

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But we have not yet come to the most remarkable lines in Tintern Abbey, namely those in which Wordsworth describes the silent influence on the mind of the hoarded, carefully preserved impressions of nature. He writes:—

"These beauteous forms,

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