Facing this unrivalled sophistication and self-awareness of meta… — “Tennyson and Picturesque Poetry” (1955), in Essays in Criticism, Vol 1, No 3, July (1951), p 271, reprinted in The Interior Landscape The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan, (1969), p 271

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Facing this unrivalled sophistication and self-awareness of metaphysical landscape in modern poetry, it is easier to observe what the eighteenth century was striving for as well as what effects Wordsworth, Coleridge and their successors were interested in obtaining. Hitherto the eighteenth century has been examined in retrospect from Wordsworth and Coleridge rather than from Keats and Tennyson.

“Tennyson and Picturesque Poetry” (1955), in Essays in Criticism, Vol 1, No 3, July (1951), p 271, reprinted in The Interior Landscape The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan, (1969), p 271

Quote #1186

Year: 1955

Chapter: Coleridge