Romantic Horizons: Aspects of the Sublime in English Poetry and Painting, 1770-1850, Volume 10 |
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... cave is the vision into the buried self , into the dark world of dreams , into consciousness itself . The model is , of course , the Platonic cave , which was being transformed in the eighteenth century into the Lockean image of the ...
... cave is the vision into the buried self , into the dark world of dreams , into consciousness itself . The model is , of course , the Platonic cave , which was being transformed in the eighteenth century into the Lockean image of the ...
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... caves . " Not only is the cave motif redoubled , the cave within the cave , but now the companion image of percolating water is introduced . Perhaps this water is " a sufficiently apt symbol of the flowing of time , es- pecially ...
... caves . " Not only is the cave motif redoubled , the cave within the cave , but now the companion image of percolating water is introduced . Perhaps this water is " a sufficiently apt symbol of the flowing of time , es- pecially ...
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... cave , com- plete with the startling shift in light at the aperture , became an image of sublimity . That is why the cave so abruptly started ap- pearing in all the arts ; think of Fingal's Cave , Merlin's Cave , or Calypso's Grotto as ...
... cave , com- plete with the startling shift in light at the aperture , became an image of sublimity . That is why the cave so abruptly started ap- pearing in all the arts ; think of Fingal's Cave , Merlin's Cave , or Calypso's Grotto as ...
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