Stephen Prickett is Regius Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Glasgow, and an Honorary Professor of the University of Kent, at Canterbury. From 2003-8 he was Director of the Armstrong Browning Library at Baylor University, Waco, Texas. From 1967 to 1982 he taught at the University of Sussex, before moving to the Chair of English at the Australian National University in Canberra (1983-89). He is President of the George MacDonald Society His publications include one novel, nine monographs, seven edited volumes, and over ninety articles on Romanticism, Victorian Studies and related topics, especially on literature and theology.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: the rainbow and the imagination
1. 'An image with a glory round its head'
2. Mechanism versus organism
3. Imagination: the active mind
4. Unity and creativity
5. Memory and perception
6. Wordsworth and Coleridge: a romanticism
7. Symbol and growth
Concise bibliography
Index.