Serpent Imagery and Symbolism: A Study of the Major English Romantic PoetsRowman & Littlefield, 1966 - 157 pages To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com. |
Contents
Symbolism and Romanticism | 17 |
The Serpent and Romanticism | 25 |
Serpent Imagery In the Major Romantics | 36 |
Mans Emotions | 38 |
Mans Physical and Mental Attributes | 44 |
The Whole Man | 49 |
Areas and Aspects of Mans Life and Experiences | 56 |
Natural Phenomena and Manmade Objects | 62 |
Woman as SerpentBeguiler | 94 |
Materialism | 99 |
Empiricism | 102 |
Sensuousness | 105 |
Man Against Man | 108 |
Literary Criticism | 113 |
Institutions Against Man | 115 |
Priests and Priestcraft | 121 |
Pictorial Detail | 67 |
Serpent Symbolism in the Major Romantics | 72 |
Benevolence | 76 |
Pantheism | 81 |
The Fall of Man | 87 |
Summary and Conclusions | 127 |
Notes and References | 139 |
Bibliography | 153 |
Common terms and phrases
adder Albion analytic reason Ancient Mariner animal appears apprehend areas and aspects basilisk beauty beguiler Blake body Byron Cain Christabel cockatrice coiled Coleridge Coleridge's color death demon divine E. M. W. Tillyard eagle earth emotions Endymion enmity eternal evil experience expression feeling finite Four Zoas Garden of Eden human hydra imagery and symbolism images dealing infinite interpretation intuitive imagination John Keats Keats Keats's king Lamia lover Lucifer Lycius major Romantic man-made objects material world mental attributes myth mythology natural world pantheism pantheistic world passion phenomena and man-made Philoctetes pictorial detail poem poet's Poetical poetry poison presents the serpent priests recognized reptile Revolt of Islam Romantic poets Romanticism Romanticists Satan senses sensuous serpent imagery serpent images describing serpent symbolism sex symbolism shadow Shelley Shelley's soul spiritual world stress supernatural thou thoughts tion tree truth unconscious Urizen Vala venom vipers water snakes William Blake woman Wordsworth
Popular passages
Page 10 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole : and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it shall live.