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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... the Heav- ens . The Existence of God inferr'd from a view of the Beauty and Harmony of the Creation . Morning and Evening Devotion ... " ( 12 ) . As Shuffelton claims , such " 103 William Livingston and the Natural Sublime.
... any bounds , any end ; and so must necessarily conclude , by the very nature and idea of each part of it , to be ac- tually infinite " ( 210 ) . No transcendental loophole 109 William Livingston and the Natural Sublime.
... sublime through link- ages of natural simplicity and common piety . The poetic sublime emerges in and as a mood of moralized rapture : " His thoughts are natural and simple , seldom common - place , and often sublime . ” Earlier poems ...
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