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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 34
Page 35
... movement , excitement , activity , impetus . ” In our encounter with the numinous , we “ come upon something ... movement into a sacred precinct , a movement to a realm where the powers of awareness are different , where vision is given ...
... movement , excitement , activity , impetus . ” In our encounter with the numinous , we “ come upon something ... movement into a sacred precinct , a movement to a realm where the powers of awareness are different , where vision is given ...
Page 80
... movement of ascent ( or , in another figure , the movement back to the One from the borders of emanation ) can commence . Thomson is , as his language shows , particularly concerned with number ; plenitude always confounds our powers of ...
... movement of ascent ( or , in another figure , the movement back to the One from the borders of emanation ) can commence . Thomson is , as his language shows , particularly concerned with number ; plenitude always confounds our powers of ...
Page 83
... movement he sees . All his best landscapes involve tension and movement . It may be the tension of antici- pation , as all nature waits for the descent of rain or the breaking of a storm . It may be the movement into the deep recesses ...
... movement he sees . All his best landscapes involve tension and movement . It may be the tension of antici- pation , as all nature waits for the descent of rain or the breaking of a storm . It may be the movement into the deep recesses ...
Contents
False Themes and Gentle Minds | 19 |
Pictures and Powers | 31 |
Implications for Poetic Practice | 49 |
Copyright | |
12 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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