Romantic Horizons: Aspects of the Sublime in English Poetry and Painting, 1770-1850, Volume 10 |
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there is no guarantee he might not go over the line into a dark and discontinuous fantasy . " Here in essence is the paradox of the sublime : unity demands the loss of self , the abrogation of reason , yet it promises “ mute repose ...
there is no guarantee he might not go over the line into a dark and discontinuous fantasy . " Here in essence is the paradox of the sublime : unity demands the loss of self , the abrogation of reason , yet it promises “ mute repose ...
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A quick transition from light to darkness , or from darkness to light , has yet a greater effect . 33 It is this oscillation between light and dark , sun and shadow , that the Ancient Mariner ( and we as well ) must experience .
A quick transition from light to darkness , or from darkness to light , has yet a greater effect . 33 It is this oscillation between light and dark , sun and shadow , that the Ancient Mariner ( and we as well ) must experience .
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Dark regions are around it , where the tombs Of buried griefs the spirit sees , but scarce One hour doth linger weeping , for the pierce Of new - born woe it feels more inly smart : And in these regions many a venom'd dart At random ...
Dark regions are around it , where the tombs Of buried griefs the spirit sees , but scarce One hour doth linger weeping , for the pierce Of new - born woe it feels more inly smart : And in these regions many a venom'd dart At random ...
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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