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 101
... stanza . The Tom Joneses and Winander Boys of the world have not ceased to exist , but the vogue for benevolism has passed , and the hint of an etiological myth in the second stanza is prelapsarian without reason . Wordsworth's most ...
... stanza . The Tom Joneses and Winander Boys of the world have not ceased to exist , but the vogue for benevolism has passed , and the hint of an etiological myth in the second stanza is prelapsarian without reason . Wordsworth's most ...
Page 210
... stanza defines an attitude toward the facts the poem has described . But that attitude , although logically plausible , contradicts the emotional emphasis of the stanzas that precede its statement . One may object to the imagery of ...
... stanza defines an attitude toward the facts the poem has described . But that attitude , although logically plausible , contradicts the emotional emphasis of the stanzas that precede its statement . One may object to the imagery of ...
Page 292
... stanzas had been fitted to the tune , but that no parallel exists for Burns's first stanza quoted above . The significant and characteristic trait of this stanza is the way states the girl's defiance in terms at once metaphorical yet ...
... stanzas had been fitted to the tune , but that no parallel exists for Burns's first stanza quoted above . The significant and characteristic trait of this stanza is the way states the girl's defiance in terms at once metaphorical yet ...
Contents
False Themes and Gentle Minds | 19 |
Pictures and Powers | 31 |
Implications for Poetic Practice | 49 |
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