Retreat into the Mind: Victorian Poetry and the Rise of Psychiatry

Retreat into the Mind: Victorian Poetry and the Rise of Psychiatry

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Author: Ekbert Faas
binding: Hardback
Published: Princeton University Press, 1988
Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markings

This work discusses over thirty major and minor poets, focusing on what Victorian critics viewed as an unprecedented psychological school of poetry related to early psychiatry. Ekbert Faas explores how figures like Wordsworth and Coleridge influenced later poets such as Arnold, Tennyson, and Browning in this fascinating intersection of poetry and psychology.

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Author: Ekbert Faas
binding: Hardback
Published: Princeton University Press, 1988
Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markings

This work discusses over thirty major and minor poets, focusing on what Victorian critics viewed as an unprecedented psychological school of poetry related to early psychiatry. Ekbert Faas explores how figures like Wordsworth and Coleridge influenced later poets such as Arnold, Tennyson, and Browning in this fascinating intersection of poetry and psychology.