To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to BlakeDoubleday, 1964 - 465 pages |
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Page 367
... sublime : the general privations of " vacuity , darkness , solitude , and silence " ( II , vi ) ; vastness or infinity ; the evidence of tremendous effort or labor . Burke is ingenious in showing how great light or great darkness , deep ...
... sublime : the general privations of " vacuity , darkness , solitude , and silence " ( II , vi ) ; vastness or infinity ; the evidence of tremendous effort or labor . Burke is ingenious in showing how great light or great darkness , deep ...
Page 368
... sublime is the art of transcendence , the personification is among its characteristic works . Burke's treatment of the sublime makes inescapably clear that a new mode of poetry is being discovered in this period . The seeming ...
... sublime is the art of transcendence , the personification is among its characteristic works . Burke's treatment of the sublime makes inescapably clear that a new mode of poetry is being discovered in this period . The seeming ...
Page 452
... Sublime , New York , 1935 ; Christopher Hussey , The Picturesque , London , 1927 ; Walter J. Hipple , Jr. , The Beautiful , The Sublime , & The Picturesque in Eighteenth - Century British Aesthetic Theory , Carbondale , Illinois , 1957 ...
... Sublime , New York , 1935 ; Christopher Hussey , The Picturesque , London , 1927 ; Walter J. Hipple , Jr. , The Beautiful , The Sublime , & The Picturesque in Eighteenth - Century British Aesthetic Theory , Carbondale , Illinois , 1957 ...
Contents
PREFACE vii | 1 |
DRYDEN AND DIALECTIC | 28 |
ORDER AND Liberty | 79 |
Copyright | |
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Absalom accept achieve Achitophel aesthetic Almanzor assertion Augustan Aureng-zebe awareness beauty becomes Blake Blake's Brobdingnag Bromion characters Christian Clarissa comic contrast creates creature Defoe Deist dialectical divine doctrine Dryden Dulness Dunciad embodies energy epistle Essay eternal experience false feeling Fielding Fielding's flesh force forms freedom gives Gulliver's Travels happiness harmony heart hero heroic Houyhnhnms human Ian Watt idea imagination Innocence insists kind landscape live Lovelace lovers man's Mandeville Mandeville's meaning Milton Moll Flanders moral moralist move nature never novel once Oothoon order of charity order of mind painting Pascal passion pastoral pattern play pleasure poem poet poetry political Pope Pope's pride principles rational reason satire scene seeks seems selfhood sense Shaftesbury social Socrates Songs of Experience soul spirit Sterne sublime Swift Theotormon things thou thought tion Tiriel Tom Jones tragic transcendence true 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 |