Romantic Horizons: Aspects of the Sublime in English Poetry and Painting, 1770-1850, Volume 10 |
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Hence the endless disputes about the characters of objects , and the absolute denial the part of many that sublimity or beauty exists . To talk of an object as being sublime or beautiful in itself , without references to some subject by ...
Hence the endless disputes about the characters of objects , and the absolute denial the part of many that sublimity or beauty exists . To talk of an object as being sublime or beautiful in itself , without references to some subject by ...
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ruling principle of material 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 ...
ruling principle of material 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 ...
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As you left him much younger than I did , it is possible he did not inculcate to you what no doubt everybody will grant , that there are essential distinctions between beauty , greatness , and sublimity and he presumed that tastes ...
As you left him much younger than I did , it is possible he did not inculcate to you what no doubt everybody will grant , that there are essential distinctions between beauty , greatness , and sublimity and he presumed that tastes ...
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Contents
William Blake The Arlington Court Picture | 52 |
Evening | 78 |
W Turner The Slave Ship | 101 |
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achieved aesthetic Ancient appear artists attempt awareness beautiful became become Blake Byron called cave central century clearly clouds Coleridge color concerned consciousness considered Constable Constable's continue cosmic Cozens critics Cynthia daemons described earth edge effect elevated Endymion English especially eternal ethereal exist experience explain fact feel finally forms give heaven higher horizon human imagination important interest interpretations John Keats kind landscape light liminal lines look Manfred Martin matter meaning mind mountains nature never nineteenth objects once organized painters painting picture play pleasure poem poet poetry Prometheus psychological refers result romantic scene seems seen sense Shelley side soul space spirits structure Study sublime things thought threshold tion tradition trees turn Turner Unbound understanding universe vision visual Wordsworth