To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to BlakeDoubleday, 1964 - 465 pages |
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... fact and faith . " Without the belief in the inner harmony of our world , " Einstein said , " there could be no science . " And he put this in more traditional terms as well : " I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world . ” 2 ...
... fact and faith . " Without the belief in the inner harmony of our world , " Einstein said , " there could be no science . " And he put this in more traditional terms as well : " I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world . ” 2 ...
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... fact under the fiction . Pope , after present- ing his satiric portrait of the corrupt and effeminate Sporus , boasts : Be one Poet's praise , That , if he pleased , he pleased by manly ways ( Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot , 336-37 ) . The ...
... fact under the fiction . Pope , after present- ing his satiric portrait of the corrupt and effeminate Sporus , boasts : Be one Poet's praise , That , if he pleased , he pleased by manly ways ( Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot , 336-37 ) . The ...
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... fact , is created is a travesty - the order of charity as it might be conceived by a fleshly imagination . The crucial breakdown is in the order of mind . The mind has been lulled into inactivity or flattened into arrogance . Its ...
... fact , is created is a travesty - the order of charity as it might be conceived by a fleshly imagination . The crucial breakdown is in the order of mind . The mind has been lulled into inactivity or flattened into arrogance . Its ...
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 |