To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to BlakeDoubleday, 1964 - 465 pages |
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Page 95
... Shaftesbury com- paratively unresponsive to the heights and depths of natural forces as well as of human power . His religion has no place for mystery , for exultation or agonies , and he does not foreshadow theories of the sublime ...
... Shaftesbury com- paratively unresponsive to the heights and depths of natural forces as well as of human power . His religion has no place for mystery , for exultation or agonies , and he does not foreshadow theories of the sublime ...
Page 97
... Shaftesbury's conception of liberty is not a markedly romantic one . It is given a romantic turn only when the virtuous man is found not in the master of self ... Shaftesbury's theory of art seems SHAFTESBURY : ORDER AND LIBERTY 97.
... Shaftesbury's conception of liberty is not a markedly romantic one . It is given a romantic turn only when the virtuous man is found not in the master of self ... Shaftesbury's theory of art seems SHAFTESBURY : ORDER AND LIBERTY 97.
Page 98
... Shaftesbury is an im- posing theorist . Shaftesbury's theory of art is also interesting beyond its own province for its application of those large terms - order , pro- portion , harmony - in specific discussions of artistic practice ...
... Shaftesbury is an im- posing theorist . Shaftesbury's theory of art is also interesting beyond its own province for its application of those large terms - order , pro- portion , harmony - in specific discussions of artistic practice ...
Contents
PREFACE | 1 |
DRYDEN AND DIALECTIC | 28 |
ORDER AND LIBERTY | 79 |
Copyright | |
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achieve aesthetic Almanzor Amelia Antony assertion Augustan awareness beauty becomes Blake Blake's Bromion characters Christian Clarissa comic contrast creates creature Defoe Deist dialectical divine doctrine Dryden Dulness Dunciad embodies energy Essay eternal experience false feeling Fielding Fielding's flesh force forms freedom gives happiness harmony heart heaven hero heroic Houyhnhnms human Ian Watt idea imagination Innocence insists kind landscape live Lovelace lovers MacFlecknoe man's Mandeville Mandeville's marriage meaning Milton mock Moll Moll Flanders moral move nature never novel once Oothoon order of charity order of mind Pascal passion pastoral pattern picturesque play pleasure poem poet poetry Pope Pope's pride rational reason Reynolds satire scene seeks seems selfhood sense Shaftesbury Songs of Experience soul spirit spiritual music Sterne sublime Swift Theotormon things Thomson thou thought tion Tiriel Tom Jones tragic transcendence Tristram Tristram Shandy turn Urizen virtue vision words worldly
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Elations: The Poetics of Enthusiasm in Eighteenth-century Britain Shaun Irlam No preview available - 1999 |