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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... genius " exem- plify ways in which verbal transformations predetermine intellectual history . CHARACTERISTICS AND AUTHORS OF GENIUS The modern turn to subjectivity and monologue is signaled by Shaftes- bury's identification of Greek ...
... genius " exem- plify ways in which verbal transformations predetermine intellectual history . CHARACTERISTICS AND AUTHORS OF GENIUS The modern turn to subjectivity and monologue is signaled by Shaftes- bury's identification of Greek ...
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... genius that derives from nature and chooses not to acknowledge that Horace employs the difficult word ingenium , rather than the familiar genius . Addison's innovation depends on his simultaneous usurpation of both ranges of meaning and ...
... genius that derives from nature and chooses not to acknowledge that Horace employs the difficult word ingenium , rather than the familiar genius . Addison's innovation depends on his simultaneous usurpation of both ranges of meaning and ...
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... genius is a natural gift ; the forces of genius have precedence over the forces of art , so that a genius is endangered by following rules and models . Despite an explicit denial , in other words , Addison prefers geniuses of the first ...
... genius is a natural gift ; the forces of genius have precedence over the forces of art , so that a genius is endangered by following rules and models . Despite an explicit denial , in other words , Addison prefers geniuses of the first ...
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