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 78
... created a poetry of nature that drew its force from the whole cosmos of the poem . Even in those passages of free and intense phantasy where Milton catches the energies of creative goodness , the cosmic and moral themes of the dramatic ...
... created a poetry of nature that drew its force from the whole cosmos of the poem . Even in those passages of free and intense phantasy where Milton catches the energies of creative goodness , the cosmic and moral themes of the dramatic ...
Page 79
... created world . But , once the epic narrative has given way to a descriptive and meditative structure , the movement of the poem reflects the movement of the poet's mind . The very arbitrariness of design , the constant shift between ...
... created world . But , once the epic narrative has given way to a descriptive and meditative structure , the movement of the poem reflects the movement of the poet's mind . The very arbitrariness of design , the constant shift between ...
Page 229
... creation with yet another extended and emphatic statement of nature's superiority to art : Thus nature works as if ... created grottoes also offers aesthetic appeals despite the fact that it is “ less worthy of ap- plause , though more ...
... creation with yet another extended and emphatic statement of nature's superiority to art : Thus nature works as if ... created grottoes also offers aesthetic appeals despite the fact that it is “ less worthy of ap- plause , though more ...
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