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 99
... Gray's invocation . The logic that preconditions Gray's poem will not permit the Aeschylean conversion of Adversity ; her coming first binds everything that follows within a deterministic chain . Gray struggled all his life to free ...
... Gray's invocation . The logic that preconditions Gray's poem will not permit the Aeschylean conversion of Adversity ; her coming first binds everything that follows within a deterministic chain . Gray struggled all his life to free ...
Page 103
... Gray's next ode and first Pindaric , “ The Progress of Poesy , " was intended to estrange his new public . It has a motto in what Gray hoped was the unintelligible language of Pindar that means " Vocal [ phonanta ] to the Intelligent ...
... Gray's next ode and first Pindaric , “ The Progress of Poesy , " was intended to estrange his new public . It has a motto in what Gray hoped was the unintelligible language of Pindar that means " Vocal [ phonanta ] to the Intelligent ...
Page 116
... Gray's own apotheosis in " The Progress of Poesy . " V After " Odikle❞ — Gray's unvarying name for " The Bard " in his letters to friends - Gray as a writer of odes very nearly maintained the silence of his last protagonist . The 1769 ...
... Gray's own apotheosis in " The Progress of Poesy . " V After " Odikle❞ — Gray's unvarying name for " The Bard " in his letters to friends - Gray as a writer of odes very nearly maintained the silence of his last protagonist . The 1769 ...
Contents
False Themes and Gentle Minds | 19 |
Pictures and Powers | 31 |
Implications for Poetic Practice | 49 |
Copyright | |
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