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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... critic Walter Benjamin and deconstructs the method of both critics as the more or less violent fragmentation of literary bodies into “ quo- tations , " in the interests of building up a discourse of one's own , a discourse which , in ...
... critic Walter Benjamin and deconstructs the method of both critics as the more or less violent fragmentation of literary bodies into “ quo- tations , " in the interests of building up a discourse of one's own , a discourse which , in ...
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... critics , to restore the meaningfulness of the sublime experience . " I may know an object to be terrible ; that is , I may know it to possess the power of hurting or destroying : but this is knowledge , and not feeling or sentiment ...
... critics , to restore the meaningfulness of the sublime experience . " I may know an object to be terrible ; that is , I may know it to possess the power of hurting or destroying : but this is knowledge , and not feeling or sentiment ...
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... critics of later eighteenth- and early nineteenth - century Britain . We are currently in a literary situation where ... criticism and formal psychology of the Age of Sensibility and of Romantic times lagged considerably behind the ...
... critics of later eighteenth- and early nineteenth - century Britain . We are currently in a literary situation where ... criticism and formal psychology of the Age of Sensibility and of Romantic times lagged considerably behind the ...
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