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Sensory Imagery And Aesthetic Affect In The Poetry Of Keats, Hopkins, And Eliot, Clare Louis Gerlach
Sensory Imagery And Aesthetic Affect In The Poetry Of Keats, Hopkins, And Eliot, Clare Louis Gerlach
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This dissertation focuses on applying a new method of analysis to selected works by three major poets, John Keats, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T. S. Eliot. The project considers their work in light of recent scholarship by Charles Altieri on the affects, such as emotion, feelings, passion, and mood; how these affects operate in artistic works; and, specifically, examines how these authors employ the affects in their poetry to express their own emotions and, in the creation of lyric poems, turn these emotions into works of art. In addition, the project strengthens the aesthetic readings with a study of the …