To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to BlakeDoubleday, 1964 - 465 pages |
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... imagination , and imagination 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 ...
... imagination , and imagination 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 ...
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... imagination which it bestows " ( 15 November 1762 ) . Bowing thrice before Edinburgh's " lofty ro- mantic mountain " ( as he leaves for London ) and feeling a " warm glow of satisfaction " in his " agreeable whim and superstitious hu ...
... imagination which it bestows " ( 15 November 1762 ) . Bowing thrice before Edinburgh's " lofty ro- mantic mountain " ( as he leaves for London ) and feeling a " warm glow of satisfaction " in his " agreeable whim and superstitious hu ...
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... imagination , in a “ staggering and hurry of the mind ” ( II , xvii ) . In his discussion of words , Burke tries to free poetry from the demand increasingly made by critics who were in revolt against Augustan wit - for example , Joseph ...
... imagination , in a “ staggering and hurry of the mind ” ( II , xvii ) . In his discussion of words , Burke tries to free poetry from the demand increasingly made by critics who were in revolt against Augustan wit - for example , Joseph ...
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 |