To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to BlakeDoubleday, 1964 - 465 pages |
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Page 174
... give her significance , and he gives it through the art of ironic satire . In the second dialogue , the Friend's attempt to denature satire continues . It should be kept “ general , unconfined " ( 14 ) and should not be allowed to ...
... give her significance , and he gives it through the art of ironic satire . In the second dialogue , the Friend's attempt to denature satire continues . It should be kept “ general , unconfined " ( 14 ) and should not be allowed to ...
Page 286
... gives us a world of dress , in which the soul has dwindled to a suit of clothes worn with slavish adherence to the rules of fashion . The Dunciad gives the empire of vacuity , the usurpation of true Order by a god- dess who exists only ...
... gives us a world of dress , in which the soul has dwindled to a suit of clothes worn with slavish adherence to the rules of fashion . The Dunciad gives the empire of vacuity , the usurpation of true Order by a god- dess who exists only ...
Page 384
... give us forms of space and of light , patterns of tension and harmony , that underlie any specific content we may give to them . The fact that these forms are located in landscape gives them concreteness but tends to empty them of ...
... give us forms of space and of light , patterns of tension and harmony , that underlie any specific content we may give to them . The fact that these forms are located in landscape gives them concreteness but tends to empty them of ...
Contents
PREFACE vii | 1 |
DRYDEN AND DIALECTIC | 28 |
ORDER AND Liberty | 79 |
Copyright | |
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Absalom accept achieve Achitophel aesthetic Almanzor assertion Augustan Aureng-zebe awareness beauty becomes Blake Blake's Brobdingnag Bromion characters Christian Clarissa comic contrast creates creature Defoe Deist dialectical divine doctrine Dryden Dulness Dunciad embodies energy epistle Essay eternal experience false feeling Fielding Fielding's flesh force forms freedom gives Gulliver's Travels happiness harmony heart hero heroic Houyhnhnms human Ian Watt idea imagination Innocence insists kind landscape live Lovelace lovers man's Mandeville Mandeville's meaning Milton Moll Flanders moral moralist move nature never novel once Oothoon order of charity order of mind painting Pascal passion pastoral pattern play pleasure poem poet poetry political Pope Pope's pride principles rational reason satire scene seeks seems selfhood sense Shaftesbury social Socrates Songs of Experience soul spirit Sterne sublime Swift Theotormon things thou thought tion Tiriel Tom Jones tragic transcendence true 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 |