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Notes and Commentaries

Volume 01, Number 1 (1976)

A Note on Romantic Allusions in Hear Us O Lord

  • W. H. New
Submitted
May 22, 2008
Published
1976-01-01

Abstract

Malcolm Lowry's fondness for the English Romantic poets affected both his reading and his rhetoric, an influence particularly notable in Hear Us O Lord From Heaven Thy Dwelling Place. Reference to Coleridge and Wordsworth reveals Lowry's contemporary rewriting of the humane values of the Romantic tradition. Readers of Lowry's book, with its repeated re-enactment of voyage and return, are asked to become aware of the interpenetration between joy and distress, and to reflect upon the interaction between the world of nature sensorily perceived and the world of nature ethically transformed by the contemplative mind.