American Sublime: The Genealogy of a Poetic GenreUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1991 - 337 Seiten Tracing ideas of the sublime in American literature from Puritan writings to the postmodern epoch, Rob Wilson demonstrates that the North American landscape has been the ground for political as well as aesthetic transport. He takes a distinctly historical approach and explores the ways in which experiences of the American landscape instill desire for other kinds of vastness: self-expansion, national expansion, and American political power. As Wallace Stevens put it, the American will takes "dominion everywhere." |
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... Contemplation . " 17 Like Milton's transport- hungry drifter in " Il Penseroso , " Baxter recommended pensive hours of twilight as the natural and Biblically endorsed setting to intensify the " solitude of contemplative devotion ” : “ I ...
... contemplative poet a vision of self- transport in " twilight groves , ” where religious splendor can “ Dis- solve me ... Contemplation feed thee so Regardlessly to let earth goe ? ( 215 ) Enduring the temptations of this unregenerate ...
... contemplative in nature and pious in transport : " The contemplative nature of po- etry , also , its love of plaintive themes , the liberty it allows of dwell- ing long and enthusiastically on ... contemplation of a 125 William Cullen Bryant.
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