![]() ![]() The chapter concludes with an analysis of two poems shaped by the conflicting conception of time: William Wordsworth’s Ode: Intimations of Immortality and Lord Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. This is particularly the case in poems in which the soul is the main trope and symbol. Taking its cue from the similarities and differences of the concepts of time and history in the writings of Walter Benjamin and Benedict Anderson, the chapter argues that Romantic poetry is likewise characterised by this tension between immanence and transcendence expressed by these two twentieth-century authors. Whereas the latter are often associated with religion, theology, and philosophy, the former is connected to history and historicism. Just like traditional concepts of the soul, time oscillates between immanence and transcendence: an immanent transient temporality, on the one hand, and transcendent notions of eternity, on the other. This chapter investigates the temporality of the soul in the Romantic period. ![]()
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