Romantic Horizons: Aspects of the Sublime in English Poetry and Painting, 1770-1850, Volume 10 |
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... beauty exists . To talk of an object as being sublime or beautiful in itself , without references to some subject by whom that sublimity or beauty is perceived , is absurd ; nor is it of the slightest importance to mankind whether there ...
... beauty exists . To talk of an object as being sublime or beautiful in itself , without references to some subject by whom that sublimity or beauty is perceived , is absurd ; nor is it of the slightest importance to mankind whether there ...
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... beauty , or as the " venus genetrix , ” it is implied ( 2. 2. 153-58 ) , she controls the purpose of the six daemons . In other words , she would probably be at the level of " god " in the Neoplatonic hierarchy , but her role is more ...
... beauty , or as the " venus genetrix , ” it is implied ( 2. 2. 153-58 ) , she controls the purpose of the six daemons . In other words , she would probably be at the level of " god " in the Neoplatonic hierarchy , but her role is more ...
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... beauty , greatness , and sublimity and he presumed that tastes admitted the same three degrees of eminence . You know he attempted , some time ago , to ascertain the charac- teristic properties of beauty , greatness , and sublimity ...
... beauty , greatness , and sublimity and he presumed that tastes admitted the same three degrees of eminence . You know he attempted , some time ago , to ascertain the charac- teristic properties of beauty , greatness , and sublimity ...
Contents
The AntiSublime | 40 |
William Blake The Arlington Court Picture | 52 |
Evening | 78 |
Copyright | |
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aesthetic Alexander Cozens Ancient Mariner Arimanes Arlington Court artists attempt Barnett Newman beauty become Blake Blake's Byron Cave of Quietude clearly Coleridge Coleridge's color Constable Constable's Clouds cosmic cosmos Cozens Cozens's critics Cynthia daemons DEMOGORGON earth edge Endymion ethereal evil external fact forms Glaucus gloss Harold Bloom Hartman heaven hierarchy horizon Iamblichus imagination Indian Maid interest interpretations John Keats Keats's landscape light liminal look lucifugum Manfred Manfred's mantic Martin Mental Traveller mind mountains mystic nature Neoplatonic Neoplatonists ness nineteenth century Northrop Frye objects painters painting picturesque Platonic pleasure thermometer Plotinus poem poet poetic Poetry Prometheus Unbound psychological Rime Romantic Poetry romantic sublime Romanticism scene seems SEMICHORUS sense Shelley Shelley's six daemons skies soul space Study subconscious sublime sublime experience supernatural things threshold Tintern Abbey tion tradition transcendent Turner universe vision visual William words Wordsworth Yew Trees Zoroastrian