This book embodies a sequence of closely related essays which
explore the modern poet's uneasy awareness of a tradition-the
romantic tradition-with which he must contend. The author's premise
is that the romantic age extends from "The Divine Comedy" through
Wordsworth to Eliot. The roots of contemporary questions about the
self and alienation are seen to extend at least as far back as
Dante, who is the first poet to choose the ego as a focus for
poetry of epic dimensions.
In the course of the study Montgomery considers the growing
emphasis upon the self's becoming the focus of poetry until this
shift culminated in the literature of the most autobiographical
century in western letters--the twentieth. Dante, Wordsworth, and
Eliot are discussed at length, individually and in relation to one
another, as principal instances of the reflective poet. The critic
also considers other illustrative figures such as Milton,
Coleridge, Keats, Whitman, Pound, Joyce, and Hemingway. These and
other writers have traveled along the romantic road anticipated by
"The Divine Comedy." Finally, the author suggests, the road may end
in a labyrinth so far as the contemporary writer is concerned.
In his increasing concern with the problems of the self and of
the mind, the poet has been forced to invent new modes and
techniques, which as the author demonstrates, grow out of his
response to the psychological and metaphysical preoccupations of
his age.
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