On the Use and Representations of Sound in British Pre-Romantic and Romantic Poetry, or “On The Power of Sound”

The aim of this paper is to attract the reader’s attention on the treatment of the sounds of nature by British poets in the pre-Romantic and Romantic era. It is demonstrated that, at a time when the age-old topos of world harmony was at bay in an increasingly dechristianized Europe, poets endeavoure...

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Main Author: Claire Téchené
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut du Monde Anglophone 2016-06-01
Series:Etudes Epistémè
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/1032