Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 288
Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-0-8476-8393-2 • Hardback • May 1997 • $165.00 • (£127.00)
978-0-8476-8394-9 • Paperback • May 1997 • $62.00 • (£48.00)
Marion Montgomery is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Georgia. He is the author of numerous books, including T.S. Eliot: An Essay on the American Magus and Ezra Pound: A Critical Essay, as well as many poems and critical essays.
Romantic poets and their heirs sing in philosophical twilight, addressing issues of being and knowing while almost ignorant of the guidance available to them in the thought of Aristotle and Aquinas. Montgomery in considerable measure recovers the wisdom of pre-Kantian naturalism and with it a vantage from which to assess Wordsworth, Keats, Hopkins, Eliot, and Stevens, each measured by their attempt to regain the basis of poetic analogy in actual, extramental beingggg
— John Alvis, professor and director, American Studies Program, University of Dallas
Marion Montgomery's meditation on the plight of autonomous man cast adrift in a world of his own devising takes us through the history of philosophy and literature. The center that holds in the great singers of being he finds in the companionable relation between reason and intuition as evinced above all in the persuasive tuning of intellect and the truth of things in personal experience. This is a lovely and deeply felt rumination on the human condition by a distinguished poet doing a philosophers work. Warmly recommended.
— Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University
Romantic poets and their heirs sing in philosophical twilight, addressing issues of being and knowing while almost ignorant of the guidance available to them in the thought of Aristotle and Aquinas. Montgomery in considerable measure recovers the wisdom of pre-Kantian naturalism and with it a vantage from which to assess Wordsworth, Keats, Hopkins, Eliot, and Stevens, each measured by their attempt to regain the basis of poetic analogy in actual, extramental being
— John Alvis, professor and director, American Studies Program, University of Dallas