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 207
... Cowper's ( to which Smart was a subscriber ) depend as heavily on the quality of perception directed within ... Cowper's hymns depends on the fact that they “ are poems in religious , in primitive fear , " an emotion “ little considered ...
... Cowper's ( to which Smart was a subscriber ) depend as heavily on the quality of perception directed within ... Cowper's hymns depends on the fact that they “ are poems in religious , in primitive fear , " an emotion “ little considered ...
Page 214
... Cowper's universe are here suggested and partly described . On the one side is the realm of " conflict . " The new convert may postpone awareness of it , but he cannot avoid its actuality ; he will ultimately be forced to " see " the ...
... Cowper's universe are here suggested and partly described . On the one side is the realm of " conflict . " The new convert may postpone awareness of it , but he cannot avoid its actuality ; he will ultimately be forced to " see " the ...
Page 241
... Cowper's conventional interest in light as an emblem of spiritual reality , but hardly more than a reference . But if these passages manifest little distinct visual awareness , they also demonstrate little psychic awareness . What ...
... Cowper's conventional interest in light as an emblem of spiritual reality , but hardly more than a reference . But if these passages manifest little distinct visual awareness , they also demonstrate little psychic awareness . What ...
Contents
False Themes and Gentle Minds | 19 |
Pictures and Powers | 31 |
Implications for Poetic Practice | 49 |
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Addison Ælla Ælla's aesthetic age of sensibility antistrophe anxiety appears Bard beauty becomes begins Birtha Blake Blake's Burns's called Celmonde Celmonde's Chatterton Christopher Smart Collins Collins's Ode Cowper critics daemonic darkness death diction divine effect eighteenth-century Elegy emotional English essay expression Fancy feeling figure Freud Gray Gray's odes Harold Bloom human hymns Il Penseroso imagery imagination John kind landscape language lines literary Longinus lyric metaphor Milton mind moral Muse myth nature Northrop Frye o'er Ode to Fear originally entitled Ossian Othello Paradise passage passions Patricia Meyer Spacks Penseroso perception personification Pindar poem poet poet's poetical character poetry present Progress Robert Burns Romance scene seems sense Smart song soul speaker spirit stanza Steven Knapp sublime suggests thee theme Thomas Thomas Gray Thomson thou tradition transcendent trope turn verse vision voice Weiskel William William Blake William Cowper words Wordsworth writing Young