To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to BlakeDoubleday, 1964 - 465 pages |
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Page 62
... action , we have in the rest of the poem two telling contrasts : the opposed catalogues of Achitophel's supporters and David's ; and the paired speeches - Absalom's demagogic address to the crowd and David's final speech from the royal ...
... action , we have in the rest of the poem two telling contrasts : the opposed catalogues of Achitophel's supporters and David's ; and the paired speeches - Absalom's demagogic address to the crowd and David's final speech from the royal ...
Page 182
... action . It may be the result of confusion or imperfect choice . Its sources in human nature may be as mixed as we have seen in Pope's Essay on Man . But , interestingly , while he readily condones mixed or imperfect motives that ...
... action . It may be the result of confusion or imperfect choice . Its sources in human nature may be as mixed as we have seen in Pope's Essay on Man . But , interestingly , while he readily condones mixed or imperfect motives that ...
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... action is transformed into dialectical opposition , and each term of the opposition expands into a system or an order . This is an elaboration of what is already present in Milton's Paradise Lost , whose literal action is simple , but ...
... action is transformed into dialectical opposition , and each term of the opposition expands into a system or an order . This is an elaboration of what is already present in Milton's Paradise Lost , whose literal action is simple , but ...
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 |