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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... . Originally entitled " The Gateway to Innocence : Ossian and the Nordic Bard as Myth . " of sentimental primitivism through a mythic narrative ( the Ossianic 245 Macpherson's Ossian and the Nordic Bard as Myth Greenway.
... . Originally entitled " The Gateway to Innocence : Ossian and the Nordic Bard as Myth . " of sentimental primitivism through a mythic narrative ( the Ossianic 245 Macpherson's Ossian and the Nordic Bard as Myth Greenway.
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... myth , one which in a sense distinguishes modern myths such as Ossian from pre - scientific myths . The anthropologist Malinowski has noted that while we see myth , rite , and ritual as symbolic , the believer does not : to him , the ...
... myth , one which in a sense distinguishes modern myths such as Ossian from pre - scientific myths . The anthropologist Malinowski has noted that while we see myth , rite , and ritual as symbolic , the believer does not : to him , the ...
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... myth to constitute reality that Lessing could praise lines like the following from Klopstock's drama Hermanns Schlacht ( 1769 ) as being “ completely in the ancient German manner " ( Hermann speaks ) : “ Noble lady of my youth ! Yes , I ...
... myth to constitute reality that Lessing could praise lines like the following from Klopstock's drama Hermanns Schlacht ( 1769 ) as being “ completely in the ancient German manner " ( Hermann speaks ) : “ Noble lady of my youth ! Yes , I ...
Contents
False Themes and Gentle Minds | 19 |
Pictures and Powers | 31 |
Implications for Poetic Practice | 49 |
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