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 119
... poet's death , a projection that includes a local swain's account of the poet's life and burial ( stanzas 24-29 ) , together with a presentation of the epitaph written by the poet himself ( stanzas 30–32 ) . This entire two - part ...
... poet's death , a projection that includes a local swain's account of the poet's life and burial ( stanzas 24-29 ) , together with a presentation of the epitaph written by the poet himself ( stanzas 30–32 ) . This entire two - part ...
Page 122
... poet's , does continue , in the person of the " hoary - headed swain , " who tells some possible " kindred spirit " about the poet . Here is a possible strategy , a form of post- humous ventriloquism , Gray putting his words into the ...
... poet's , does continue , in the person of the " hoary - headed swain , " who tells some possible " kindred spirit " about the poet . Here is a possible strategy , a form of post- humous ventriloquism , Gray putting his words into the ...
Page 141
... poet gives him the natural world as a cosmic garment , a part of what the psychologists call the " body image . " The girdle symbolizes this privileged relation whose magic is reflexively dependent upon the poet's inner chastity of mind ...
... poet gives him the natural world as a cosmic garment , a part of what the psychologists call the " body image . " The girdle symbolizes this privileged relation whose magic is reflexively dependent upon the poet's inner chastity of mind ...
Contents
False Themes and Gentle Minds | 19 |
Pictures and Powers | 31 |
Implications for Poetic Practice | 49 |
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