Romantic Horizons: Aspects of the Sublime in English Poetry and Painting, 1770-1850, Volume 10 |
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Just as the ancient philosophers saw layers of spirits moving helixlike from the One , so the poets perceived levels of consciousness moving out from the psychological locus of the Imagination . More important , the Neoplatonic ...
Just as the ancient philosophers saw layers of spirits moving helixlike from the One , so the poets perceived levels of consciousness moving out from the psychological locus of the Imagination . More important , the Neoplatonic ...
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Succession ; which is requisite that the parts may be continued so long , and in such a direction , as by their frequent impulses on the sense to impress the imagination with an idea of their progress beyond their actual limits . 2.
Succession ; which is requisite that the parts may be continued so long , and in such a direction , as by their frequent impulses on the sense to impress the imagination with an idea of their progress beyond their actual limits . 2.
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yond compare — all this can so soon become kitsch , a kind of visual hoax of the imagination . The frisson is achieved by our being forced to contemplate not density but excess . Of course , the same was said of Byron , but Martin's ...
yond compare — all this can so soon become kitsch , a kind of visual hoax of the imagination . The frisson is achieved by our being forced to contemplate not density but excess . Of course , the same was said of Byron , but Martin's ...
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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