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 62
... Young's letter is , then , like a " careless wanderer after amusement only " who will be affected by " useful awe ... Young wanders . Young continues his landscape imagery when he describes the " Conjectures ” as a kind of voyage leading ...
... Young's letter is , then , like a " careless wanderer after amusement only " who will be affected by " useful awe ... Young wanders . Young continues his landscape imagery when he describes the " Conjectures ” as a kind of voyage leading ...
Page 67
... Young's final three paragraphs return to the image drawn by the initial two . He prefaces his remarks by writing of ... Young passes on his revised conception of genius . Addison , a Christian man of genius , turns out to be the ...
... Young's final three paragraphs return to the image drawn by the initial two . He prefaces his remarks by writing of ... Young passes on his revised conception of genius . Addison , a Christian man of genius , turns out to be the ...
Page 73
... Young's view , dwells in mundane light . It deals with man's earthly happiness and does not confront man directly with the pros- pects of eternal reward and punishment . Young's interest is in the light of eternity ; he withdraws into ...
... Young's view , dwells in mundane light . It deals with man's earthly happiness and does not confront man directly with the pros- pects of eternal reward and punishment . Young's interest is in the light of eternity ; he withdraws into ...
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