The lost pattern : essays on the emergent city sensibility in Victorian England /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Forsyth, R. A. (Raymond Aubrey), 1926-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Nedlands, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press, 1976.
Subjects:	English poetry > 19th century > History and criticism. City and town life in literature.

Table of Contents:

Themes and variations
The Victorian self-image and the emergent city sensibility
Geology and the early Victorian traveller
"The onward march of thought" and the poetic theory of E. S. Dallas
The myth of nature and the Victorian compromise of the imagination
Nature and the Victorian city
Evolutionism and the pessimism of James Thomson (B.V.)--The conserving myth of William Barnes
"The buried life"
"Europe", "Africa", and the problem of spiritual authority.