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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... called “ Lon- ginus on the Sublime " was composed no later than the third century of the Common Era , but it had no influence until the sixteenth century , when the first modern edition appeared . Boileau translated it into French in ...
... called “ Lon- ginus on the Sublime " was composed no later than the third century of the Common Era , but it had no influence until the sixteenth century , when the first modern edition appeared . Boileau translated it into French in ...
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... called is what absents them ) , he enthralls their distant voices in the very “ winding- sheet " that proves them merely to be signs of the dead . I have called this enthrallment writing . " The origin of allegorical expression ...
... called is what absents them ) , he enthralls their distant voices in the very “ winding- sheet " that proves them merely to be signs of the dead . I have called this enthrallment writing . " The origin of allegorical expression ...
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... called " Ode to Poetic Election , " and its opening invocation makes us wonder just what the personification Fear can mean : Thou , to whom the world unknown With all its shadowy shapes is shown ; Who see'st appalled the unreal scene ...
... called " Ode to Poetic Election , " and its opening invocation makes us wonder just what the personification Fear can mean : Thou , to whom the world unknown With all its shadowy shapes is shown ; Who see'st appalled the unreal scene ...
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