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 132
... published this and the following Ode , he was advised , even by his Friends , to subjoin some few explanatory Notes ; but had too much respect for the understanding of his Readers to take that liberty . We can only assume that between ...
... published this and the following Ode , he was advised , even by his Friends , to subjoin some few explanatory Notes ; but had too much respect for the understanding of his Readers to take that liberty . We can only assume that between ...
Page 304
... published . Thomson's The Castle of Indolence published . Thomson dies August 27 . Gray publishes Eton Ode and " Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat " in R. Dodsley's Collection of Poems . Thomson's Coriolanus performed at Covent Garden ...
... published . Thomson's The Castle of Indolence published . Thomson dies August 27 . Gray publishes Eton Ode and " Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat " in R. Dodsley's Collection of Poems . Thomson's Coriolanus performed at Covent Garden ...
Page 305
... published by Dodsley . Chatterton's " Elinoure and Juga " published . Gray's " Ode for Music " performed at installation of the Duke of Grafton as Chancellor of Cambridge University . Chatterton writes " An Excelente Balade of Charitie ...
... published by Dodsley . Chatterton's " Elinoure and Juga " published . Gray's " Ode for Music " performed at installation of the Duke of Grafton as Chancellor of Cambridge University . Chatterton writes " An Excelente Balade of Charitie ...
Contents
False Themes and Gentle Minds | 19 |
Pictures and Powers | 31 |
Implications for Poetic Practice | 49 |
Copyright | |
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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