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Romantic Agonies: Human Suffering And The Ethical Sublime, Anthony P. Russell, Terryl Givens
Romantic Agonies: Human Suffering And The Ethical Sublime, Anthony P. Russell, Terryl Givens
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
This essay examines two poems depicting human anguish in order to explore a current in Romantic thought that implicitly yields some original and compelling insights regarding the problematic relationship between art and suffering. The focus is primarily on Wordsworth's narrative of Margaret's suffering in The Excursion, then more briefly on Shelley's Prometheus Unbound. In both cases Kant's ideas about the sublime provide us with a useful perspective from which to understand the issues these poems raise.
Warren's Audubon: A Vision Revisited, Sylwia W. Zechowska
Warren's Audubon: A Vision Revisited, Sylwia W. Zechowska
Masters Theses
This thesis consists of a Polish translation of a volume of Robert Penn Warren's poetry: Audubon: A Vision accompanied by an introductory essay focusing on historical, cultural and psychological aspects of the poems. As a novelist, Robert Penn Warren is well known to the Polish reading public. All his major novels have been translated into Polish and received with great acclaim, which has been confirmed by numerous editions. Warren's popularity among Polish readers may be attributed to the fact that his fiction is permeated with a peculiar sense of melancholy and a profound awareness of tragic national history, features inevitably …