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 95
... language from which urgo is borrowed . The eighteenth century , which certain of its par- tisans are fond of calling “ adult , ” does seem wanting in an authentic poetry of childhood . Gray's calculated distance is nothing to ...
... language from which urgo is borrowed . The eighteenth century , which certain of its par- tisans are fond of calling “ adult , ” does seem wanting in an authentic poetry of childhood . Gray's calculated distance is nothing to ...
Page 192
... language of his day . " Percnos " is a bird of prey , like the Persian “ Roc , " punningly associated with the “ Rock of Israel ” in a previous line ( B 1 , 94 ) , while " Lapidoth " ( Judges 4 : 4 ) is linked to " Percnos - Roc " by an ...
... language of his day . " Percnos " is a bird of prey , like the Persian “ Roc , " punningly associated with the “ Rock of Israel ” in a previous line ( B 1 , 94 ) , while " Lapidoth " ( Judges 4 : 4 ) is linked to " Percnos - Roc " by an ...
Page 195
... language is the only covenant . Smart renews the responsive prayer of the psalms and of the liturgy as if to provide ... language . " For the power of some animal is predominant in every language ” ( B 2 , 627 ) , writes Smart ; and he ...
... language is the only covenant . Smart renews the responsive prayer of the psalms and of the liturgy as if to provide ... language . " For the power of some animal is predominant in every language ” ( B 2 , 627 ) , writes Smart ; and he ...
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