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 192
... Smart's ever - shifting , eclectic play of fancy , discloses a twofold problem of representation : the traditional one of ineffability , related to the belief that God is " dark with excessive bright , " or not attainable through mortal ...
... Smart's ever - shifting , eclectic play of fancy , discloses a twofold problem of representation : the traditional one of ineffability , related to the belief that God is " dark with excessive bright , " or not attainable through mortal ...
Page 195
... Smart . But perhaps language is the only covenant . Smart renews the responsive prayer of the psalms and of the liturgy as if to provide the Church with a Book of Common Prayer genuinely " common . ' More and more of creation enters the ...
... Smart . But perhaps language is the only covenant . Smart renews the responsive prayer of the psalms and of the liturgy as if to provide the Church with a Book of Common Prayer genuinely " common . ' More and more of creation enters the ...
Page 310
... SMART Ainsworth , Edward Gay . Christopher Smart . Columbia : University of Missouri Press , 1943 . Blaydes , Sophia B. Christopher Smart as Poet of His Time . The Hague : Mouton , 1966 . Dearnley , Moira . The Poetry of Christopher ...
... SMART Ainsworth , Edward Gay . Christopher Smart . Columbia : University of Missouri Press , 1943 . Blaydes , Sophia B. Christopher Smart as Poet of His Time . The Hague : Mouton , 1966 . Dearnley , Moira . The Poetry of Christopher ...
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