It is a commonplace of the study of Romanticism that Wordsworth is the Romantic poet of the sublime , which features a traumatic encounter which is in many respects evocative of the oppressive natural sublime of Kant and Burke. The intensity of this sublime encounter compels the poet in the ...
View in context It is a sordid life, you say, this of the Tullivers and Dodsons, irradiated by no sublime principles, no romantic visions, no active, self-renouncing faith; moved by none of those wild, uncontrollable passions which create the dark shadows of misery and crime; without that...
With a sleight of hand, Andy Warhol redefined the boundaries of painting, sculpture, and film, bendin... LY Jolly 被引量: 2发表: 2001年 The pursuit of the sublime in post Romantic France My thesis takes the notion of the sublime out of its usual Romantic context to look at what it ...
The aesthetics of abstraction and the romantic sublime in modern poetry and prose (Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Wallace Stevens). threshold unfolds through the investigation of William Wordsworth's liminal sublime, Percy Shelley's "trance sublime," and John Keats's "material sublime."... WJ ...
Eighteenth-century and Romantic readers had a peculiar habit of calling personified abstractions "sublime." This has always seemed mysterious, since the same readers so often expressed a feeling that there was something wrong with turning ideas into people--or, worse, turning people into ideas. In...
Sappho’s lyric poetry, poetry meant to be accompanied by a lyre and sung, entices us to discover Eros and Aphrodite (the god and goddess of romantic love) and all the earthly delights that accompanies such natural pursuits.Sappho’s poetry was a detour from the impersonal, heroic epic ...
The sublime is an important concept in 18th- and 19th-cent. aesthetics, closely linked to the Romantic movement. It is often (following Burke’s theory of aesthetic categories) contrasted with the beautiful (beautiful n. 2) and the picturesque (picturesque n. 1), in the fact that the emoti...
the sublime in order to have a complete picture of Coleridge's poetical works. Poems such as "Limbo", "Love's Apparition and Evanishment: An Allegoric Romance" or indeed "Human Life or On the Denial of Immortality" emanate a sense of pessimism about the figure of the Romantic visionary....
Romantic Agonies: Human Suffering and the Ethical Sublime The focus is primarily on Wordsworth's narrative of Margaret's suffering in The Excursion, then more briefly on Shelley's Prometheus Unbound. In both ... T Givens,AP Russell 被引量: 0发表: 1998年 Wordsworth's the prelude and the exc...