To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to BlakeDoubleday, 1964 - 465 pages |
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... divine artist may become the divine engineer or mathematician , for it is the structural design above all that the analogy of art seeks to invoke . The more these structural qualities are abstracted from other symbols of value - from ...
... divine artist may become the divine engineer or mathematician , for it is the structural design above all that the analogy of art seeks to invoke . The more these structural qualities are abstracted from other symbols of value - from ...
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... divine artist may be deemed sufficient to meet any difficulty - they are at least im- perfections of our awareness . We cannot read the divine work of art with sufficient skill ; we can look for universal order , but our limita- tions ...
... divine artist may be deemed sufficient to meet any difficulty - they are at least im- perfections of our awareness . We cannot read the divine work of art with sufficient skill ; we can look for universal order , but our limita- tions ...
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... divine hypothesis " ; once admitted , it will " admit a total change in all your principles and opinons , yet would you still be the self - same Philocles , though better yet ... than the present one " ( Ch II , 101 ) . The effect of ...
... divine hypothesis " ; once admitted , it will " admit a total change in all your principles and opinons , yet would you still be the self - same Philocles , though better yet ... than the present one " ( Ch II , 101 ) . The effect of ...
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 |