The Nature of Literature

abstract analysis artist Bagehot beauty century character classical Coleridge conception conscious creative definition Descartes distinction Don Quixote dream earl emotional English English poetry essay essential experience expression fact feeling free verse Freud Froissart genius Gerard Manley Hopkins glory Gulliver's Travels Hawthorne Henry James Hopkins Hopkins's human humour ideal ideas images imagination inspiration instinctive intellectual intelligence intuition Jane Eyre kind knights letter literary criticism literature long poem lyrical Malory mean mental merely metaphor metaphysical poetry mind modern moral myth nature never obscurity original passage passion Patmore Patmore's perhaps personality phantasy philosophy poet poetic prose psycho-analysis psychological question reality rhythm romantic romanticism seems sense sensibility sentiment Sir Kay Smollett spirit sprung rhythm Sterne Sterne's style Swift theory things thought tion Tristram Shandy truth unconscious values Vauvenargues Vauvenargues's verse virtue whole words write written wrote Wuthering Heights