To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to BlakeDoubleday, 1964 - 465 pages |
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Page 103
... spirits their proper exorbitancy and inclination . " The case of Ulysses is perhaps clearest : The passion of an ... spirit , the over - reaching manner , and over - re- finement of art and policy are as naturally incident to the ex ...
... spirits their proper exorbitancy and inclination . " The case of Ulysses is perhaps clearest : The passion of an ... spirit , the over - reaching manner , and over - re- finement of art and policy are as naturally incident to the ex ...
Page 403
... spirit Till I am subtil as a serpent in a paradise , Consuming all , both flowers & fruits , insects & warbling birds ( 8 : 36-38 ) . Beyond the poem's cycles of repression and tyranny lies the mem- ory of the " immortal spirit ...
... spirit Till I am subtil as a serpent in a paradise , Consuming all , both flowers & fruits , insects & warbling birds ( 8 : 36-38 ) . Beyond the poem's cycles of repression and tyranny lies the mem- ory of the " immortal spirit ...
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... spirit " becomes a failure of humanity . She will have the comfort of the aged nurse , Mnetha , instead of the dignity of true existence . Blake is defending Innocence by distinguishing it from its worldly imitation , which be- comes ...
... spirit " becomes a failure of humanity . She will have the comfort of the aged nurse , Mnetha , instead of the dignity of true existence . Blake is defending Innocence by distinguishing it from its worldly imitation , which be- comes ...
Contents
PREFACE | 1 |
DRYDEN AND DIALECTIC | 28 |
ORDER AND LIBERTY | 79 |
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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 |