Ranjan Ghosh teaches in the department of English, University of North Bengal, India. To know more about him please visit his website: http://www.ranjanghosh.com/

"Ranjan Ghosh poses a series of challenging questions about poetry, its methods and its manners, drawing on a striking range of intellectual and spiritual contexts, both eastern and western, and moving with enviable fluency between many of the greatest figures of the English literary tradition. A ranging and inclusive writer, Ghosh exemplifies in a highly individual way the imagination he singles out for notice in Coleridge -- 'a syncopation of contrary elements.'"-Seamus Perry, University of Oxford

• Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Poet: the ‘More-Ever’ and the Transcultural ‘Now’ 1. Poet as Maker? Abuse, Apology and After 2. ‘To you I submit my selfe, and worke. Farewell’: The Poet and the Reader 3. ‘Illumine what in me is dark’: The Poet and the Aesthetics of Blindness and Insight 4. ‘Launch not beyond your depth but be discreet’: Poet and the Neoclassical Philosophy of Art 5. ‘Fearful Symmetry?’ Rethinking the Poet in Romantic philosophy of Creativity 6. ‘Hero as Poet’: Thomas Carlyle and ‘Future Poetry’ 7. ‘O life unlike to ours!’: Matthew Arnold as an Indian Sage? 8. The ‘Platinum’ Poet: Modernist Aesthetics and the Making of a Poem Epilogue: ‘I arise and unbuild it again’: The Poet and Postmodern Critical Philosophy Bibliography Index

Ranjan Ghosh teaches in the department of English, University of North Bengal, India. To know more about him please visit his website: http://www.ranjanghosh.com/

"Ranjan Ghosh poses a series of challenging questions about poetry, its methods and its manners, drawing on a striking range of intellectual and spiritual contexts, both eastern and western, and moving with enviable fluency between many of the greatest figures of the English literary tradition. A ranging and inclusive writer, Ghosh exemplifies in a highly individual way the imagination he singles out for notice in Coleridge -- 'a syncopation of contrary elements.'"-Seamus Perry, University of Oxford

• Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Poet: the ‘More-Ever’ and the Transcultural ‘Now’ 1. Poet as Maker? Abuse, Apology and After 2. ‘To you I submit my selfe, and worke. Farewell’: The Poet and the Reader 3. ‘Illumine what in me is dark’: The Poet and the Aesthetics of Blindness and Insight 4. ‘Launch not beyond your depth but be discreet’: Poet and the Neoclassical Philosophy of Art 5. ‘Fearful Symmetry?’ Rethinking the Poet in Romantic philosophy of Creativity 6. ‘Hero as Poet’: Thomas Carlyle and ‘Future Poetry’ 7. ‘O life unlike to ours!’: Matthew Arnold as an Indian Sage? 8. The ‘Platinum’ Poet: Modernist Aesthetics and the Making of a Poem Epilogue: ‘I arise and unbuild it again’: The Poet and Postmodern Critical Philosophy Bibliography Index

Ranjan Ghosh teaches in the department of English, University of North Bengal, India. To know more about him please visit his website: http://www.ranjanghosh.com/

"Ranjan Ghosh poses a series of challenging questions about poetry, its methods and its manners, drawing on a striking range of intellectual and spiritual contexts, both eastern and western, and moving with enviable fluency between many of the greatest figures of the English literary tradition. A ranging and inclusive writer, Ghosh exemplifies in a highly individual way the imagination he singles out for notice in Coleridge -- 'a syncopation of contrary elements.'"-Seamus Perry, University of Oxford

• Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Poet: the ‘More-Ever’ and the Transcultural ‘Now’ 1. Poet as Maker? Abuse, Apology and After 2. ‘To you I submit my selfe, and worke. Farewell’: The Poet and the Reader 3. ‘Illumine what in me is dark’: The Poet and the Aesthetics of Blindness and Insight 4. ‘Launch not beyond your depth but be discreet’: Poet and the Neoclassical Philosophy of Art 5. ‘Fearful Symmetry?’ Rethinking the Poet in Romantic philosophy of Creativity 6. ‘Hero as Poet’: Thomas Carlyle and ‘Future Poetry’ 7. ‘O life unlike to ours!’: Matthew Arnold as an Indian Sage? 8. The ‘Platinum’ Poet: Modernist Aesthetics and the Making of a Poem Epilogue: ‘I arise and unbuild it again’: The Poet and Postmodern Critical Philosophy Bibliography Index