To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to BlakeDoubleday, 1964 - 465 pages |
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... universe . If the rhetoric moves us today less with its persuasive cogency than with its formal richness and imaginative extravagance , we must be all the more care- ful to recognize these analogies as more than the metaphors of a ...
... universe . If the rhetoric moves us today less with its persuasive cogency than with its formal richness and imaginative extravagance , we must be all the more care- ful to recognize these analogies as more than the metaphors of a ...
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... universe or that the universe is in- hospitable to his reason , for all his achievements crumble into con- flict or vanity . Once more his desire for greater power is a blind- ness to an order he cannot discern . The complexity of human ...
... universe or that the universe is in- hospitable to his reason , for all his achievements crumble into con- flict or vanity . Once more his desire for greater power is a blind- ness to an order he cannot discern . The complexity of human ...
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... universe . Such a universe accords with Newtonian science ( although New- ton was by no means a mere mechanist himself ) . But the mechani- cal model by which man tries to think breaks down even as he creates it . The complexity of the ...
... universe . Such a universe accords with Newtonian science ( although New- ton was by no means a mere mechanist himself ) . But the mechani- cal model by which man tries to think breaks down even as he creates it . The complexity of 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 |