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 187
... verse and represent it , " the pun ( magnifi - cat ) alluding to the " magnification " of the cat Jeoffrey and of the animal kingdom generally , corroborates what Freud says about wit both submitting to and escaping the censor . To ...
... verse and represent it , " the pun ( magnifi - cat ) alluding to the " magnification " of the cat Jeoffrey and of the animal kingdom generally , corroborates what Freud says about wit both submitting to and escaping the censor . To ...
Page 191
... verse " ( The Fall of Hyperion , I , 207–8 ) ? The reason is that he could not give up the sublime . He feared that poetry without enthusiasm was no longer poetry ; and he was all the more sensitive to the charge of self - inflation ...
... verse " ( The Fall of Hyperion , I , 207–8 ) ? The reason is that he could not give up the sublime . He feared that poetry without enthusiasm was no longer poetry ; and he was all the more sensitive to the charge of self - inflation ...
Page 200
... verse that somehow keeps renewing itself ? I want to explore further the " wreathed " way in which Smart builds his verse . Take his basic words " Let ” and “ For . ” Though they “ generate ” sentences , they are really a stutterance ...
... verse that somehow keeps renewing itself ? I want to explore further the " wreathed " way in which Smart builds his verse . Take his basic words " Let ” and “ For . ” Though they “ generate ” sentences , they are really a stutterance ...
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