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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... nature as essentially designed for human contemplation : The earth was made so various , that the mind Of desultory man , studious of change , And pleas'd with novelty , might be indulg'd . ( 506-8 ) 99 The principle of change and ...
... nature as essentially designed for human contemplation : The earth was made so various , that the mind Of desultory man , studious of change , And pleas'd with novelty , might be indulg'd . ( 506-8 ) 99 The principle of change and ...
Page 225
... nature , unlike Thomson , who felt obliged to condemn such passivity as " indolence , " Cowper seems to feel the passive relation to nature as an ideal state of being . Indeed , in one of his letters he suggests that man can achieve ...
... nature , unlike Thomson , who felt obliged to condemn such passivity as " indolence , " Cowper seems to feel the passive relation to nature as an ideal state of being . Indeed , in one of his letters he suggests that man can achieve ...
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... nature's superiority to art : Thus nature works as if to mock at art , And in defiance of her rival pow'rs ; By these fortuitous and random strokes Performing such inimitable feats As she with all her rules can never reach . ( 122-26 ) ...
... nature's superiority to art : Thus nature works as if to mock at art , And in defiance of her rival pow'rs ; By these fortuitous and random strokes Performing such inimitable feats As she with all her rules can never reach . ( 122-26 ) ...
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