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 34
... object to be terrible ; that is , I may know it to possess the power of hurting or destroying : but this is knowledge , and not feeling or sentiment ; and the object of that knowledge is power , and not terror ; so that , if any ...
... object to be terrible ; that is , I may know it to possess the power of hurting or destroying : but this is knowledge , and not feeling or sentiment ; and the object of that knowledge is power , and not terror ; so that , if any ...
Page 42
... object . But if the divine object drops out , we find the emphasis shifting to an impatience of the poet with all institutions or modes or perception that hide or enslave his other self — the self that is being brought into realization ...
... object . But if the divine object drops out , we find the emphasis shifting to an impatience of the poet with all institutions or modes or perception that hide or enslave his other self — the self that is being brought into realization ...
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... object is not so important . The organization of episodes now begins to seem relatively ran- dom ; yet subterraneously the same theme remains dominant : the theme of nature's importance as an object of contemplation and a source of the ...
... object is not so important . The organization of episodes now begins to seem relatively ran- dom ; yet subterraneously the same theme remains dominant : the theme of nature's importance as an object of contemplation and a source of the ...
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