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 28
... appears like a natural rather than supernatural consequence . The first open hint of the supernatural is , of course , the appearance of the right and left horsemen , whose intrusion is so easy because in a sense they have been there ...
... appears like a natural rather than supernatural consequence . The first open hint of the supernatural is , of course , the appearance of the right and left horsemen , whose intrusion is so easy because in a sense they have been there ...
Page 60
... appears in the same year as Edward Young's " Conjectures on Original Composition , ” and although they represent opposing traditions , both rely on elaborate images to represent the workings of genius . Gerard is especially indebted to ...
... appears in the same year as Edward Young's " Conjectures on Original Composition , ” and although they represent opposing traditions , both rely on elaborate images to represent the workings of genius . Gerard is especially indebted to ...
Page 304
... appears . Thomson's Tancred and Sigismunda performed at Drury Lane . Collins publishes Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegoric Subjects . Gray's Eton Ode published . Thomson's The Castle of Indolence published . Thomson dies August 27 ...
... appears . Thomson's Tancred and Sigismunda performed at Drury Lane . Collins publishes Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegoric Subjects . Gray's Eton Ode published . Thomson's The Castle of Indolence published . Thomson dies August 27 ...
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