A Longing Like Despair PDF Download

Author: Alan Grob
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874137521
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Book Description
A major aim of Grob's study is to show Arnold as poet to be possessed of far greater philosophic depth and subtlety than his critics have usually credited him with by identifying the deep affinities and shared weltanschauung of his poetic vision with the metaphysical pessimism of Schopenhauer, the major European philosopher whose insistence on the cosmic opposition between the world as will and the world as idea provided the most important philosophic alternative in the nineteenth century to the age's otherwise dominant progressive historicism."--Jacket.