Travelling is at the core of the romantic experience of life, as it implies a form of reaching out in quest of experience, which will then be, to quote famous words, “recollected in tranquillity”. The romantic poets travelled considerably, both physically and mentally, and I will try to address the two forms of journey in this paper, since I believe that imaginary excursions colour our view of ...

Poet is the object of scorn and derision in Plato’s the Republic. He even thought manufacturer was a more socially recognized occupation than poet. In Plato’s idea, handicraft was the “copy” of the “real world”, and the literary output was only the imitation of “copy”, which not only stray from the “true”, but would even misguide people. Plato’s opinion mirrors the philosopher’s distrust of Lan...

ntifying Poets Rohert Crawford speculates that 'the poet who constructs an identity I allows that poet to identify with a particular territory is the paradigmatic modern , adding that 'the position of poets in Scotland is typical of this situation' (Crawford 3: 142). One purpose of this chapter is to illustrate the limits of a Scottish literary ism preoccupied by the search for 'poetic selves t...

analysis of the internal music in sahifeh sajjadiyyeh hasan khalaf * marziye abad ** seyed hosseyn seyedi *** balasem mohseni **** abstract considering the fact that music is not just specific to poetry but it exists in all literary works, whether poetry or prose, this study attempts to examine the inner function of the music in the sahifah sajadieh. external music is related to the prosodic rh...