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 45
... passage in Blake's Milton : The Lark sitting upon his earthly bed , just as the morn Appears , listens silent ; then springing from the waving Cornfield , loud He leads the Choir of Day : trill , trill , trill , trill , Mounting upon ...
... passage in Blake's Milton : The Lark sitting upon his earthly bed , just as the morn Appears , listens silent ; then springing from the waving Cornfield , loud He leads the Choir of Day : trill , trill , trill , trill , Mounting upon ...
Page 85
... passage , we are involved in breaking free of limits as we move above the violence of the great clouds into the blue vacancy of endless space that " swells " and " expands " with exaltation and freedom . In the second passage we break ...
... passage , we are involved in breaking free of limits as we move above the violence of the great clouds into the blue vacancy of endless space that " swells " and " expands " with exaltation and freedom . In the second passage we break ...
Page 237
... passage on the dog , with its emphasis on energetic verbs ( snatches , ploughs , shakes , barks ; the noun frisk and the participle wide- scamp'ring also suggest the energy of action ) , dramatizes the way in which the power of winter ...
... passage on the dog , with its emphasis on energetic verbs ( snatches , ploughs , shakes , barks ; the noun frisk and the participle wide- scamp'ring also suggest the energy of action ) , dramatizes the way in which the power of winter ...
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