Attar, Samar. <br/><br/>
Borrowed Imagination :  the British Romantic Poets and Their Arabic-Islamic Sources / 
Samar Attar. 
 - 1 online resource (xvii, 227 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-195) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : The English romantic poets: their background, their country's history, and the sources that influenced their literary output -- Borrowed imagination in the wake of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and The Arabian Nights -- The riots of colors, sights, and sounds: John Keats' melancholic lover and the east -- The natural goodness of man: William Wordsworth's journey from the sensuous to the sublime -- Poetic intuition and mystic vision: William Blake's quest for equality and freedom -- The interrogation of political and social systems: Percy Bysshe Shelley's call for drastic societal change -- The infatuation with personal, political, and poetic freedom: George Gordon Byron and his Byronic hero -- Conclusion : How valid is Kipling's phrase that east and west can never meet?. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780739187623 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2020738513 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English poetry--History and criticism.--19th century<br/>English poetry--Arab influences.<br/>English poetry--Islamic influences.<br/>Romanticism--Great Britain.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR590 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>821/.709 ATT