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 149
... Collins and the Miltonic Legacy . © 1977 by the University of Texas Press . Originally entitled " The ' Ode to Evening . ' he adheres to this spirit of redemptive gentleness Collins experiences 149 Collins's "Ode to Evening" Paul S Sherwin.
... Collins and the Miltonic Legacy . © 1977 by the University of Texas Press . Originally entitled " The ' Ode to Evening . ' he adheres to this spirit of redemptive gentleness Collins experiences 149 Collins's "Ode to Evening" Paul S Sherwin.
Page 169
... Collins's own daemon , his indwelling Urania . Our twentieth - century Collins was Hart Crane , and I turn to Crane for his versions of Collins's Nymph . In a late , unfinished lyric , “ The Phantom Bark , " Crane rather strangely ...
... Collins's own daemon , his indwelling Urania . Our twentieth - century Collins was Hart Crane , and I turn to Crane for his versions of Collins's Nymph . In a late , unfinished lyric , “ The Phantom Bark , " Crane rather strangely ...
Page 177
... Collins's Sublime help us to see that Collins is on the verge of strength , yet hesitant to cross over into it , though Sherwin's tone is more positive than Weiskel's . I would add that Collins's baffled version of the Longinian or ...
... Collins's Sublime help us to see that Collins is on the verge of strength , yet hesitant to cross over into it , though Sherwin's tone is more positive than Weiskel's . I would add that Collins's baffled version of the Longinian or ...
Contents
False Themes and Gentle Minds | 19 |
Pictures and Powers | 31 |
Implications for Poetic Practice | 49 |
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