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 37
... Passions , the Poetical Character , Liberty . These are frankly states or faculties of the poet , and his evocation of them is a release of their power within himself . William Collins's ode on The Passions ends with a prayer to Music ...
... Passions , the Poetical Character , Liberty . These are frankly states or faculties of the poet , and his evocation of them is a release of their power within himself . William Collins's ode on The Passions ends with a prayer to Music ...
Page 42
... passions struggling for vent , laboring with a copiousness of thought and a poverty of expression , and on that very ... passions struggling for vent achieves a contagious effect upon the listener . For the passions are tied to thought ...
... passions struggling for vent , laboring with a copiousness of thought and a poverty of expression , and on that very ... passions struggling for vent achieves a contagious effect upon the listener . For the passions are tied to thought ...
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... passions by numbers . Still , how- ever artificial it may be , Gray's catalog of the passions recalls the persistent desires and ills that Hyperion could not banish . Shakespeare remains a troublesome figure by daedal standards , and ...
... passions by numbers . Still , how- ever artificial it may be , Gray's catalog of the passions recalls the persistent desires and ills that Hyperion could not banish . Shakespeare remains a troublesome figure by daedal standards , and ...
Contents
False Themes and Gentle Minds | 19 |
Pictures and Powers | 31 |
Implications for Poetic Practice | 49 |
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