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 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 - prophet whose loins are girded with the " godlike gift " is consecrated into a special relation to the prelapsarian natural creation . The Fancy or imagination of the elect poet gives him the natural world as a cosmic garment , a ...
... poet - prophet whose loins are girded with the " godlike gift " is consecrated into a special relation to the prelapsarian natural creation . The Fancy or imagination of the elect poet gives him the natural world as a cosmic garment , a ...
Page 159
... poet alike , to ignore the unappeasable longing for identification which keeps the poet questing . As a being from the " other world , " Evening satisfied Collins's love of ro- mance . She is an oracular figure who leads deep within so ...
... poet alike , to ignore the unappeasable longing for identification which keeps the poet questing . As a being from the " other world , " Evening satisfied Collins's love of ro- mance . She is an oracular figure who leads deep within so ...
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