... make concrete images using language; poetry is fundamentally visual and is meant to arrest or fascinate the reader. He uses the terms "Romanticism" and "Classicism," not because of their particular aptness in his conceptualization, but because of their cultural valence in contemporary debates ... of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finites and fixed creature, I call the classical" (61). Romanticism extols the infinite expansiveness of individuality, while classicism recognizes the inherent limitations of human existence. However limited it may be, t...

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... main stages to Yeats's development as a poet. The first phase, when he was associated both with the Aesthetic movement of the 1890s and the Celtic Twilight, is characterised by a selfconscious Romanticism. The poetry is sometimes based on Irish myth and folklore and has a mystical, dream-like quality to it. The second main phase of Yeats's poetic career was dominated by his ... 's A Window in Thrums (1889), based on his home town of Kirriemuir in Angus (the Thrums of the title), remains the best known of this short-lived burst of parochial, vernacular romanticism. PROVINCIAL NOVELS A nov...

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... is not the critics' task to talk about emotion. T. S. Eliot is a member of new criticism. He focuses attention on tradition. In his classicism poetry, he emphasizes universal, in contrast with romanticism which emphasizes the individual. He says that no text can have an independent meaning. All texts depend on other texts for its meaning. So literary tradition, such as poems, belong ... ...

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