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 225
... moral values is fundamental and unalterable . Lacking such conflicts , the South Sea Islander , despite his lack also of civilized graces , seems in all his passivity the moral superior of the energetic Englishman . Like Wordsworth ...
... moral values is fundamental and unalterable . Lacking such conflicts , the South Sea Islander , despite his lack also of civilized graces , seems in all his passivity the moral superior of the energetic Englishman . Like Wordsworth ...
Page 226
... moral danger - all these human faculties are more unambiguously valuable than the fancy . The final lines of the book , begin- ning , " God made the country , and man made the town , " sum up these implications . What wonder then that ...
... moral danger - all these human faculties are more unambiguously valuable than the fancy . The final lines of the book , begin- ning , " God made the country , and man made the town , " sum up these implications . What wonder then that ...
Page 247
... moral ambivalence . The Humanists had seen history in terms of a struggle between virtue and vice ( witness the popularity of Virgil ) , but this makes a balanced conflict difficult to portray in a moral narrative . In Temora ...
... moral ambivalence . The Humanists had seen history in terms of a struggle between virtue and vice ( witness the popularity of Virgil ) , but this makes a balanced conflict difficult to portray in a moral narrative . In Temora ...
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