To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to BlakeDoubleday, 1964 - 465 pages |
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Page 191
... meaning and , particularly , of their obligatory nature - can serve the worldly interests of a secular society . The Gospel system gives the wits harmless sport . The priesthood provides a modicum of literacy and ( because it cannot ...
... meaning and , particularly , of their obligatory nature - can serve the worldly interests of a secular society . The Gospel system gives the wits harmless sport . The priesthood provides a modicum of literacy and ( because it cannot ...
Page 204
... MEANING Lightness changes to heaviness , transparence to thickness ; the world weighs heavily ; the universe crushes ... meaning . With the eclipse of the higher func- tions we move from the complex discriminations of meaning to lan ...
... MEANING Lightness changes to heaviness , transparence to thickness ; the world weighs heavily ; the universe crushes ... meaning . With the eclipse of the higher func- tions we move from the complex discriminations of meaning to lan ...
Page 211
... meaning becomes " pri- vate . " The last writer has a " despotic power over all other authors " before him ; his very existence erases the past . To find meaning in him demands a refinement of interpretation that can uncover " a ...
... meaning becomes " pri- vate . " The last writer has a " despotic power over all other authors " before him ; his very existence erases the past . To find meaning in him demands a refinement of interpretation that can uncover " a ...
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 |