Poets of Sensibility and the SublimeHarold Bloom Chelsea House Publishers, 1986 - 324 pages A collection of critical essays on English poetry during the Age of Sensibility and the Sublime, the half-century between the death of Alexander Pope in 1744 and the death of Robert Burns in 1796. |
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Page 285
... Burns's lines . In one letter to Frances Dunlop , for instance , he defined a song's symbolic power : " Notwithstanding its rude simplicity [ it ] speaks feelingly to the heart . " And ... Burns's song Robert Burns as Bard : The Songs 285.
... Burns's lines . In one letter to Frances Dunlop , for instance , he defined a song's symbolic power : " Notwithstanding its rude simplicity [ it ] speaks feelingly to the heart . " And ... Burns's song Robert Burns as Bard : The Songs 285.
Page 289
... Burns's speaker uses it unironically , to affirm her affection despite John's age and their mutual decline . Burns took several images from the older version but changed their import by applying them commonly to the couple rather than ...
... Burns's speaker uses it unironically , to affirm her affection despite John's age and their mutual decline . Burns took several images from the older version but changed their import by applying them commonly to the couple rather than ...
Page 302
... Burns's relationship to folk song is as revisionary as Smart's to Scripture . Yet in adapting " John Anderson my Jo , " Burns revised not the paradoxes of Mat- thew or Job but the caustic reverie of a bored farm wife . Often , his ...
... Burns's relationship to folk song is as revisionary as Smart's to Scripture . Yet in adapting " John Anderson my Jo , " Burns revised not the paradoxes of Mat- thew or Job but the caustic reverie of a bored farm wife . Often , his ...
Contents
False Themes and Gentle Minds | 19 |
Pictures and Powers | 31 |
Implications for Poetic Practice | 49 |
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