Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Poet: the ‘More-Ever’ and the Transcultural ‘Now’ 1. Poet as Maker? Abuse, Apology and After 2. ‘To you I submit my selfe, and worke. Farewell’: The Poet and the Reader 3. ‘Illumine what in me is dark’: The Poet and the Aesthetics of Blindness and Insight 4. ‘Launch not beyond your depth but be discreet’: Poet and the Neoclassical Philosophy of Art 5. ‘Fearful Symmetry?’ Rethinking the Poet in Romantic philosophy of Creativity 6. ‘Hero as Poet’: Thomas Carlyle and ‘Future Poetry’ 7. ‘O life unlike to ours!’: Matthew Arnold as an Indian Sage? 8. The ‘Platinum’ Poet: Modernist Aesthetics and the Making of a Poem Epilogue: ‘I arise and unbuild it again’: The Poet and Postmodern Critical Philosophy Bibliography Index

About the Author

Ranjan Ghosh teaches in the department of English, University of North Bengal, India. To know more about him please visit his website: http://www.ranjanghosh.com/

Reviews

"Ranjan Ghosh poses a series of challenging questions about poetry, its methods and its manners, drawing on a striking range of intellectual and spiritual contexts, both eastern and western, and moving with enviable fluency between many of the greatest figures of the English literary tradition. A ranging and inclusive writer, Ghosh exemplifies in a highly individual way the imagination he singles out for notice in Coleridge -- 'a syncopation of contrary elements.'"-Seamus Perry, University of Oxford