To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to BlakeDoubleday, 1964 - 465 pages |
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Page 343
... poetic energies of the mind Mark Akenside had written of man's power to behold in lifeless things , The inexpressive ... poet becomes both actor and audience . He contemplates himself as he stands in the theatre of nature , finding in ...
... poetic energies of the mind Mark Akenside had written of man's power to behold in lifeless things , The inexpressive ... poet becomes both actor and audience . He contemplates himself as he stands in the theatre of nature , finding in ...
Page 352
... poet himself but the divine order within the created world . But , once the epic narra- tive has given way to a descriptive and meditative structure , the movement of the poem reflects the movement of the poet's mind . The very ...
... poet himself but the divine order within the created world . But , once the epic narra- tive has given way to a descriptive and meditative structure , the movement of the poem reflects the movement of the poet's mind . The very ...
Page 417
... poet speaking in his own person ) accepts it without fear : " if you please , we will commit our- selves to this void , and see whether providence is here also : if you will not , I will " ( 155 ) . The climax of this vision is the ...
... poet speaking in his own person ) accepts it without fear : " if you please , we will commit our- selves to this void , and see whether providence is here also : if you will not , I will " ( 155 ) . The climax of this vision is the ...
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 |