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 113
... things , and yet literally is the end of things — a fatal prolepsis . Gray's antiquarian odes could have been published together under the title " The Loom of Hell " ( " Fatal Sisters , ” 2 ) . The ease gained from narrative and ...
... things , and yet literally is the end of things — a fatal prolepsis . Gray's antiquarian odes could have been published together under the title " The Loom of Hell " ( " Fatal Sisters , ” 2 ) . The ease gained from narrative and ...
Page 127
... things hoped for , the evidence of things not seen ” ( Heb . 11 : 1 ) . What is so pyrrhic in Gray's way of stating the problem is that in attacking the pretensions of greatness in the face of death , he calls into question poetry's ...
... things hoped for , the evidence of things not seen ” ( Heb . 11 : 1 ) . What is so pyrrhic in Gray's way of stating the problem is that in attacking the pretensions of greatness in the face of death , he calls into question poetry's ...
Page 294
... thing , " praised both by Thomas Crawford and Cedric Thorpe - Davie as one of Burns's finest songs , was inspired by Miss Deborah Duff - Davies — like Lesley Baillie , a young acquaintance of Burns : Chorus Bonie wee thing , canie wee thing ...
... thing , " praised both by Thomas Crawford and Cedric Thorpe - Davie as one of Burns's finest songs , was inspired by Miss Deborah Duff - Davies — like Lesley Baillie , a young acquaintance of Burns : Chorus Bonie wee thing , canie wee thing ...
Contents
False Themes and Gentle Minds | 19 |
Pictures and Powers | 31 |
Implications for Poetic Practice | 49 |
Copyright | |
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