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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... Sensibility . ” Its great exemplar was Rousseau , and its prin- cipal British representative was the uncanny novelist Laurence Sterne . In a complex fusion , the passion for the Sublime mode , agonistic and transcendental , was able to ...
... Sensibility . ” Its great exemplar was Rousseau , and its prin- cipal British representative was the uncanny novelist Laurence Sterne . In a complex fusion , the passion for the Sublime mode , agonistic and transcendental , was able to ...
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... sensibility , Warton's Essay on Pope , regrets that Pope was so bound down by good sense and judgment . Pope , Warton explains , did not lack imagination , but “ his imagination was not his predominant talent , because he indulged it ...
... sensibility , Warton's Essay on Pope , regrets that Pope was so bound down by good sense and judgment . Pope , Warton explains , did not lack imagination , but “ his imagination was not his predominant talent , because he indulged it ...
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... sensibility invoked in opera seria , heroic plays , Ossianics , and great odes ( to name a few of what seem to me to be its eighteenth - century manifestations ) . Our disinclination toward the grand and the sublime would seem to block ...
... sensibility invoked in opera seria , heroic plays , Ossianics , and great odes ( to name a few of what seem to me to be its eighteenth - century manifestations ) . Our disinclination toward the grand and the sublime would seem to block ...
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