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 86
... expression and to order them in ways that a moral system might not admit . This is important . We need not assume that there is a natural movement from Protestant individualism to sentimentalism to pantheism ; these terms are too ...
... expression and to order them in ways that a moral system might not admit . This is important . We need not assume that there is a natural movement from Protestant individualism to sentimentalism to pantheism ; these terms are too ...
Page 294
... expression of his feelings . In their indirect ( ironic ) presentation , the attraction of one man for one woman ( and a woman inac- cessible because of a disparity in their social classes ) becomes an expression of wonder at the ...
... expression of his feelings . In their indirect ( ironic ) presentation , the attraction of one man for one woman ( and a woman inac- cessible because of a disparity in their social classes ) becomes an expression of wonder at the ...
Page 300
... expressing " fancy , freedom , harmony . " And Burns's " reverence " for song did go along with his rejection of a grand ... expression to signify the idealizing impulse of the true bard . The heaven - taught minstrel “ left behind ” the ...
... expressing " fancy , freedom , harmony . " And Burns's " reverence " for song did go along with his rejection of a grand ... expression to signify the idealizing impulse of the true bard . The heaven - taught minstrel “ left 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