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 61
... Original Composition " ( 1759 ) and William Duff's Essay on Original Genius ( 1767 ) both emphasize the originality or peculiarity of genius . At the same time , they blur the origins of originality , for how can original genius ...
... Original Composition " ( 1759 ) and William Duff's Essay on Original Genius ( 1767 ) both emphasize the originality or peculiarity of genius . At the same time , they blur the origins of originality , for how can original genius ...
Page 63
... original may be said to be of a vegetable nature ; it rises spontaneously from the vital root of genius ; it grows , it is not made . ” “ Genius " names the magical place of creation ex nihilo , or rather , " out of a barren waste ...
... original may be said to be of a vegetable nature ; it rises spontaneously from the vital root of genius ; it grows , it is not made . ” “ Genius " names the magical place of creation ex nihilo , or rather , " out of a barren waste ...
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... original genius are too extreme in their figuration , they overpower readers ' abilities and cause pseudoblindness . Duff prefers to close his eyes to the danger that must consequently attach to creations of original genius . Both Young ...
... original genius are too extreme in their figuration , they overpower readers ' abilities and cause pseudoblindness . Duff prefers to close his eyes to the danger that must consequently attach to creations of original genius . Both Young ...
Contents
False Themes and Gentle Minds | 19 |
Pictures and Powers | 31 |
Implications for Poetic Practice | 49 |
Copyright | |
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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