Main entry:

Drew, John, 1939-

Title & Author:

India and the romantic imagination / John Drew.

Publication:

Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1998, ©1987.

Description:

xv, 305 pages ; 22 cm.

Series:

Oxford India paperbacks

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'The road from colonus' and Death in the green tree -- E.M. Forster: Professor Godbole and a passage to Alexandria -- Sir William Jones: Asiatic researches and the platonizing of India -- Apollonius of Tyana: a neo-Pythagorean and the Indianizing of Plato -- Pythagoras: the esoteric doctrines of the Brihad Aranyaka -- Alexander the Great: Indian ascetics and the Christian image of paradise -- Coleridge: 'Kubla Khan' and the rise of Tantric Buddhism -- Shelley: Prometheus unbound and a vale in the Indian Caucasus -- Alun Lewis: 'The earth is a syllable' and Death in the green tree.

Summary:

The influence of India on English romantic poetry.

ISBN:

0195647106 (paperback)
9780195647105 (paperback)

Subject:

English literature Indic influences.
Romanticism Great Britain.
English poetry 19th century History and criticism.
Romantisme Grande-Bretagne.
Poésie anglaise 19e siècle Histoire et critique.
English poetry.
Literature.
Romanticism.
Englisch
Indien
Indienbild
Literatur
Lyrik
Romantik
Letterkunde.
Engels.
Romantiek.
India In literature.
Great Britain.
India.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Oxford India paperbacks.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 215292
Call No.: PR129.I5 D7 1998
Status: Available

Location: Library main 215293
Call No.: PR129.I5 D7 1998
Status: Available