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Poets of sensibility and the sublime
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Poets of sensibility and the sublime

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: New York : Chelsea House Publishers, 1986.
Series: Modern critical views.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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Poets of sensibility and the sublime.
New York : Chelsea House Publishers, 1986
(OCoLC)567974502
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.

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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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