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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... John Keats Rudyard Kipling D. H. Lawrence John Le Carré Ursula K. Le Guin Doris Lessing Sinclair Lewis Robert Lowell Norman Mailer Bernard Malamud Thomas Mann Christopher Marlowe Carson McCullers Herman Melville James Merrill Arthur Miller ...
... John Keats Rudyard Kipling D. H. Lawrence John Le Carré Ursula K. Le Guin Doris Lessing Sinclair Lewis Robert Lowell Norman Mailer Bernard Malamud Thomas Mann Christopher Marlowe Carson McCullers Herman Melville James Merrill Arthur Miller ...
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... John Anderson , my jo . I'm backit like a salmon , I'm breastit like a swan ; My wame it is a down - cod , My middle ye may span : Frae my tap - knot to my tae , John , I'm like the new - fa'n snow ; And its a ' for your convenience John ...
... John Anderson , my jo . I'm backit like a salmon , I'm breastit like a swan ; My wame it is a down - cod , My middle ye may span : Frae my tap - knot to my tae , John , I'm like the new - fa'n snow ; And its a ' for your convenience John ...
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... John Anderson my Jo . In the bawdy source the endearment “ jo ” is applied sarcastically . Burns's speaker uses it unironically , to affirm her affection despite John's age and their mutual decline . Burns took several images from the ...
... John Anderson my Jo . In the bawdy source the endearment “ jo ” is applied sarcastically . Burns's speaker uses it unironically , to affirm her affection despite John's age and their mutual decline . Burns took several images from the ...
Contents
False Themes and Gentle Minds | 19 |
Pictures and Powers | 31 |
Implications for Poetic Practice | 49 |
Copyright | |
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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