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Colour and Experience in Nineteenth-Century Poetry

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  • © 1988

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Authors:
  1. Richard Cronin

    1. University of Glasgow, UK

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Richard Cronin
      Pages 1-6

  3. Dull Red

    1. Dull Red

      • Richard Cronin
      Pages 7-15

  4. The Romantics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Awful Newton

      • Richard Cronin
      Pages 19-28

    3. A Rainbow in the Sky

      • Richard Cronin
      Pages 29-35

    4. Blue, Glossy Green, and Velvet Black

      • Richard Cronin
      Pages 36-45

    5. Woven Colours

      • Richard Cronin
      Pages 46-63

    6. Purple Riot

      • Richard Cronin
      Pages 64-80

  5. Robert Browning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. Blind Hope

      • Richard Cronin
      Pages 83-95

    3. Rainbow Flakes

      • Richard Cronin
      Pages 96-103

    4. Seven Proper Colours Chorded

      • Richard Cronin
      Pages 104-115

    5. The Subtle Prism

      • Richard Cronin
      Pages 116-129

    6. The Red Thing

      • Richard Cronin
      Pages 133-143

    7. By White and Red Describing Human Flesh

      • Richard Cronin
      Pages 144-159

    8. The Crimson Quest

      • Richard Cronin
      Pages 160-167

  6. Gerard Manley Hopkins

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
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    2. Pure Blues

      • Richard Cronin
      Pages 171-179

    3. Two Flocks, Two Folds — Black, White

      • Richard Cronin
      Pages 180-189
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In this book colour words as used in the poetry of Keats, Browning and Hopkins become crucial indicators of a way of looking at the nineteenth-century world. The author traces the forging of language that mediates between a system of values and the flux of experience.

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  • University of Glasgow, UK

    Richard Cronin

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