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 135
... reference in a living community , cuts off the avenues of externalization , the opportunities for the adequate gesture , and leaves the hero of origins alone with death , at once the end of ambivalence and the threshold of a desired ...
... reference in a living community , cuts off the avenues of externalization , the opportunities for the adequate gesture , and leaves the hero of origins alone with death , at once the end of ambivalence and the threshold of a desired ...
Page 169
... reference is purely visionary , as though Collins came back from the dead , say , in Shelley's “ Skylark . ” In some truer sense Collins speaks to his Nymph Fear again when Crane addresses his nymph Helen in For the Marriage of Faustus ...
... reference is purely visionary , as though Collins came back from the dead , say , in Shelley's “ Skylark . ” In some truer sense Collins speaks to his Nymph Fear again when Crane addresses his nymph Helen in For the Marriage of Faustus ...
Page 241
... reference characteristic of Cowper's conventional interest in light as an emblem of spiritual reality , but hardly more than a reference . But if these passages manifest little distinct visual awareness , they also demonstrate little ...
... reference characteristic of Cowper's conventional interest in light as an emblem of spiritual reality , but hardly more than a reference . But if these passages manifest little distinct visual awareness , they also demonstrate little ...
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