To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to BlakeDoubleday, 1964 - 465 pages |
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... write satire . The talent for irony and ridicule may rise from temperament , but the talent is fostered by a vision of man and the world that gives satire depth and res- onance . The writer may simply " entertain " a view , but as he writes ...
... write satire . The talent for irony and ridicule may rise from temperament , but the talent is fostered by a vision of man and the world that gives satire depth and res- onance . The writer may simply " entertain " a view , but as he writes ...
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... writes in distraction after the rape , she strikes a deeper vein . To her sister , she writes : I thought , poor proud wretch that I was , that what you said was owing to your envy . I thought I could acquit my intention of any such ...
... writes in distraction after the rape , she strikes a deeper vein . To her sister , she writes : I thought , poor proud wretch that I was , that what you said was owing to your envy . I thought I could acquit my intention of any such ...
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... writes , " repeated again and again , in animals , vegetables , minerals , and in men " ( 567 ) . When he writes on Chaucer's pilgrims , Blake insists upon their generality or universality ; and elsewhere it is clear that he wants to ...
... writes , " repeated again and again , in animals , vegetables , minerals , and in men " ( 567 ) . When he writes on Chaucer's pilgrims , Blake insists upon their generality or universality ; and elsewhere it is clear that he wants to ...
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 |