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
... Ode to Adversity , " the gesture of invocation succeeds ; Gray summons ... Duty , " which may be considered here to complete the synchronic setting ... Ode to Duty , " which takes over Gray's stanza as well as an aspect of his theme ...
... Ode to Adversity , " the gesture of invocation succeeds ; Gray summons ... Duty , " which may be considered here to complete the synchronic setting ... Ode to Duty , " which takes over Gray's stanza as well as an aspect of his theme ...
Page 101
... Duty have always been present in the heart , as who can doubt , what motivates their superfluous invocation at this ... Ode in the next stanza : Flowers laugh before thee in their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve ...
... Duty have always been present in the heart , as who can doubt , what motivates their superfluous invocation at this ... Ode in the next stanza : Flowers laugh before thee in their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve ...
Page 102
Harold Bloom. It is important to notice how clumsily the Alexandrines of the “ Ode to Duty " are handled . The weariness of the first of them is a mild triumph of imitative form effected by its elegiac echoes of " Tintern Abbey " and ...
Harold Bloom. It is important to notice how clumsily the Alexandrines of the “ Ode to Duty " are handled . The weariness of the first of them is a mild triumph of imitative form effected by its elegiac echoes of " Tintern Abbey " and ...
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