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 137
Harold Bloom. THOMAS WEISKEL William Collins's " Ode on the Poetical Character " Collins's most ambitious poem , the " Ode on the Poetical Character , ” pre- sents notorious difficulties , but they are conceptual rather than ...
Harold Bloom. THOMAS WEISKEL William Collins's " Ode on the Poetical Character " Collins's most ambitious poem , the " Ode on the Poetical Character , ” pre- sents notorious difficulties , but they are conceptual rather than ...
Page 145
... character is thereby poised at the transitional moment when poetic Innocence becomes inaccessible for all time . Event and recog- nition are always reciprocal aspects in any version of the Fall . Psychologically considered , the Fall ...
... character is thereby poised at the transitional moment when poetic Innocence becomes inaccessible for all time . Event and recog- nition are always reciprocal aspects in any version of the Fall . Psychologically considered , the Fall ...
Page 258
... character must not be the toy of a plotter . Chatterton conceives an action , therefore , in which his hero's love as first presented is as admirable and human as Othello's , in which his valor exceeds Othello's , in which the ...
... character must not be the toy of a plotter . Chatterton conceives an action , therefore , in which his hero's love as first presented is as admirable and human as Othello's , in which his valor exceeds Othello's , in which the ...
Contents
False Themes and Gentle Minds | 19 |
Pictures and Powers | 31 |
Implications for Poetic Practice | 49 |
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