TY  - BOOK
AU  - Attar,Samar
TI  - Borrowed Imagination: the British Romantic Poets and Their Arabic-Islamic Sources 
SN  - 9780739187623
AV  - PR590 
U1  - 821/.709 ATT  23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Lexington Books
KW  - English poetry
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Arab influences
KW  - Islamic influences
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - Great Britain
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-195) and index; 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?
ER  -