The School of Love
The Evolution of the Stuart Love Lyric
By
Hugh
M.
Richmond
Challenging the view of Shelley, Arnold, and Eliot that there
has been a decline
in
human sensibility
in
the later history of
European culture, Hugh Richmond demonstrates that the history
of the love lyric, at least, reveals a progressive enrichment of
human awareness. The author systematically illustrates the
handling of the conventional amatory situations down to the
seventeenth century and explores the new conceptual and stylistic
patterns, as well as the novel love psychology, that the Stuart
poets superimposed on this traditional substructure. He ap–
proaches the lyrics with the dual purpose of examining them as
the result of an accumulated tradition and of evaluating them
individually. The result is a fusion of orthodox and new critical
methods that is particularly relevant to modem criticism.
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