To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to BlakeDoubleday, 1964 - 465 pages |
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Page 137
... movement and the patterned field , for each local movement both governs and is governed by all others . The order Pope creates is neither me- chanical nor imposed ; all mass , one might say , is transformed to energy . The first epistle ...
... movement and the patterned field , for each local movement both governs and is governed by all others . The order Pope creates is neither me- chanical nor imposed ; all mass , one might say , is transformed to energy . The first epistle ...
Page 141
... movement of the poem is the most sharply hor- tatory . Man must be made to relinquish what by now he cannot help but ... movement from external to internal completes the movement we have seen throughout the Essay : from the time - bound ...
... movement of the poem is the most sharply hor- tatory . Man must be made to relinquish what by now he cannot help but ... movement from external to internal completes the movement we have seen throughout the Essay : from the time - bound ...
Page 352
... movement of the poem reflects the movement of the poet's mind . The very arbitrariness of design , the constant shift between observa- tion and reflection , makes us aware of the associative mind at work . His subject , moreover , is ...
... movement of the poem reflects the movement of the poet's mind . The very arbitrariness of design , the constant shift between observa- tion and reflection , makes us aware of the associative mind at work . His subject , moreover , is ...
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 |