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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Harold Bloom |
| ISBN: | 0877546797 : 9780877546795 |
| OCLC Number: | 13455713 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | viii, 324 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Sensibility and the sublime : essays in theory: Towards defining an age ofd sensibility / Northrop Frye ; False themes and gentle minds / Geoffrey H. Hartman ; The sublime poem : pictures and powers / Martin Price ; Sublime personification : implications of poetic practice / Steven Knapp -- The eighteenth-century introjection of genius / Ken Frieden -- 2. Essays on the poets: The theatre of mind : Edward Young and james Thomson / Martin Price ; Thomas Gray's feather'd cincture : the odes / Paul H. Fry ; Gray's "Elegy" / Peter M. Sacks ; Thomas Gray / Jean-Pierre Mileur ; William Collins's "Ode on the poetical character" / Thomas Weiskel ; Collins's "Ode to evening" / Paul S. Skerwin ; From Topos to Trope : Collins's "Ode to fear" / Harold Bloom ; Christopher Smart's "Magnificat" / Heoffrey H. Hartman ; William Cowper : the heightened perception / Patricia Meyer Spacks ; Macpherson's Ossian and the Nordic bard as myth / John L. Greenway ; Chatterton's art : Ælla / Donald S. Taylor ; William Blake's Poetical sketches / Harold Bloom ; Robert Burns as bard : the songs / Carol McGuirk. |
| Series Title: | Modern critical views |
| Responsibility: | edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. |
Abstract:
A collection of critical essays on English poetry during the Age of Sensibility and the Sublime, the half-century between the death of Alexander Pope in 1744 and the death of Robert Burns in 1796.
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