To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to BlakeDoubleday, 1964 - 465 pages |
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... creates happiness . But this is imagination in the narrow sense of phantasy ; and what it creates is a system of appearance and custom in which men find the stability of a shared dream . Such a world is hateful to the man who can see ...
... creates happiness . But this is imagination in the narrow sense of phantasy ; and what it creates is a system of appearance and custom in which men find the stability of a shared dream . Such a world is hateful to the man who can see ...
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... creates is neither me- chanical nor imposed ; all mass , one might say , is transformed to energy . The first epistle closes with an insistence on the bafflement self- hood creates for itself by the very categories of its thought . All ...
... creates is neither me- chanical nor imposed ; all mass , one might say , is transformed to energy . The first epistle closes with an insistence on the bafflement self- hood creates for itself by the very categories of its thought . All ...
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... creates the cyclic myth of the four realms of man , which are also four conditions of spirit . Eden is a place of mastery , of active engagement in intellectual warfare and hunting , or what Shaw calls the creation of new mind . The ...
... creates the cyclic myth of the four realms of man , which are also four conditions of spirit . Eden is a place of mastery , of active engagement in intellectual warfare and hunting , or what Shaw calls the creation of new mind . The ...
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 |