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 93
... present passage Gray blends allusions of two kinds : first , to the elegiac mode of Propertius and Ovid that longs for the spontaneous voice of Spring , and second , to the world of Milton before the Fall - to the warbler of native ...
... present passage Gray blends allusions of two kinds : first , to the elegiac mode of Propertius and Ovid that longs for the spontaneous voice of Spring , and second , to the world of Milton before the Fall - to the warbler of native ...
Page 94
... present . Childhood itself is the etiological myth of the Eton College Ode , as of the Intimations Ode , but Gray presents his myth self - consciously as a myth , as a fiction of the soul's fair seed - time . If such a time ever existed ...
... present . Childhood itself is the etiological myth of the Eton College Ode , as of the Intimations Ode , but Gray presents his myth self - consciously as a myth , as a fiction of the soul's fair seed - time . If such a time ever existed ...
Page 101
... present in the heart , as who can doubt , what motivates their superfluous invocation at this moment ? The poem does not come upon Duty for the first time , but rather warms for the first time to what the eighteenth century would have ...
... present in the heart , as who can doubt , what motivates their superfluous invocation at this moment ? The poem does not come upon Duty for the first time , but rather warms for the first time to what the eighteenth century would have ...
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