Princeton University Press Princeton Romanticism and the Forms of Ruin - McFarland Book

Explore the complex relationship between Romanticism and the concept of fragmentation in this scholarly work by Thomas McFarland. Originally published in 1981, this text examines how poets like Wordsworth and Coleridge navigated a disintegrating world. McFarland argues that despite their goals for spiritual and life-based wholeness, these Romantics existed as fragments within a broken landscape. This edition is part of the Princeton Legacy Library, which uses modern print-on-demand technology to bring back important, out-of-print titles from the Princeton University Press collection. It provides a deep look into the modalities of fragmentation that defined the era. This book is a significant resource for students and scholars studying the philosophical and poetic structures of the Romantic period.