Romantic Confusions of the Good

Marion Montgomery is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Georgia. He is the author of numerous books, including T.S. Eliot: An Essay on the American Magus and Ezra Pound: A Critical Essay, as well as many poems and critical essays.

Romantic poets and their heirs sing in philosophical twilight, addressing issues of being and knowing while almost ignorant of the guidance available to them in the thought of Aristotle and Aquinas. Montgomery in considerable measure recovers the wisdom of pre-Kantian naturalism and with it a vantage from which to assess Wordsworth, Keats, Hopkins, Eliot, and Stevens, each measured by their attempt to regain the basis of poetic analogy in actual, extramental beingggg