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 24
... Romance begins to simplify itself . It becomes the creative spirit and frees itself from the great mass of medieval and post- medieval romances in the same way as the Spirit of Protestantism frees itself from the formalism of temples ...
... Romance begins to simplify itself . It becomes the creative spirit and frees itself from the great mass of medieval and post- medieval romances in the same way as the Spirit of Protestantism frees itself from the formalism of temples ...
Page 142
... romance , his myth of origins and authority for the poetical character . Romance , however , is not reality , and Collins's ac- knowledgment of this situation at the end of the mesode refers significantly to the historical moment . Of ...
... romance , his myth of origins and authority for the poetical character . Romance , however , is not reality , and Collins's ac- knowledgment of this situation at the end of the mesode refers significantly to the historical moment . Of ...
Page 147
... Romance , since the powerful innocence it is intended to secure proves inaccessible . Why play out an expulsion from paradise — still less attempt to usurp it daemonically - when it is a mere fiction of what never was ? This means , of ...
... Romance , since the powerful innocence it is intended to secure proves inaccessible . Why play out an expulsion from paradise — still less attempt to usurp it daemonically - when it is a mere fiction of what never was ? This means , of ...
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