To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to BlakeDoubleday, 1964 - 465 pages |
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Page 197
... less than perfect in it he can lose the vision or pervert its meaning . The book raises the question of how much that we call civilization is an imperfect dis- guise of our lowest appetites ( rather than a true sublimation or trans ...
... less than perfect in it he can lose the vision or pervert its meaning . The book raises the question of how much that we call civilization is an imperfect dis- guise of our lowest appetites ( rather than a true sublimation or trans ...
Page 225
... less conscious and there- fore less anxious . Her maternal indulgence fosters the infantile , en- courages dabbling in excrement , and exclaims with delight at the least achievement . While the dunces prance and gambol , Dulness herself ...
... less conscious and there- fore less anxious . Her maternal indulgence fosters the infantile , en- courages dabbling in excrement , and exclaims with delight at the least achievement . While the dunces prance and gambol , Dulness herself ...
Page 235
... less the vic- tim than the elect , or both at once - fool and hero , hero because fool . There is also another no less important kind of comic hero , the equilibrist - the man who without effort but with consummate , al- most ludicrous ...
... less the vic- tim than the elect , or both at once - fool and hero , hero because fool . There is also another no less important kind of comic hero , the equilibrist - the man who without effort but with consummate , al- most ludicrous ...
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 |