Summary:

This is Richard Brantley's most wide-ranging and his most personal
book. It connects the epistemology of John Locke to evangelical
Christianity, showing how the late ("but not belated") Romanticism of
Emerson's prose and Tennyson's In Memoriam A. H. H. exemplifies the
period's trust in experience as the best means of knowing what is
true. Interpreting their work in light of the eighteenth-century
thought of John Wesley (founder of British Methodism) and Jonathan
Edwards (leader of the American Great Awakening), Brantley composes a
complex harmony of ideas, much as the antiphonal voices in a divided
chancel choir rejoice in agreeable, yet complicated, song. With a
willingness to risk the widest ramifications of his ideas, Brantley
explores the creative tension between empiricism and evangelicalism,
reaffirming the hopefulness of Romantic literature and of the
Romantic writers who used their poetry and prose to examine issues of
personal urgency. He seeks specific answers to the question of
ultimate meaning in human existence, boldly asserting that the
optimism of Tennyson and Emerson "makes so much sense for their
social world that it may even make sense for today's
individual-in-society." His method is relatively unsystematic, for he
invokes Keats's "Negative Capability," the ability to rest with
"uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching
after fact and reason." While emphasizing this value amid multiple
perspectives and cultures, Brantley, in this concluding volume of his
historical-critical tetralogy, aspires to the condition of open mind
and warm heart that he finds in Wesley, Edwards, Tennyson, and
Emerson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-335) and index.

Classification:

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Dewey Class: 821.8 -- English poetry
LCC Number: PR5592

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: xv, 352 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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