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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... nature as sensuous means to affirm sensations and concoct ideas of Nature's God . For Bradstreet , as for diverse American Puritan poets such as Richard Steere and Edward Johnson , sensuous im- ages of nature , beheld " in Raptur'd ...
... nature ; that is , nature portrayed as higher than and prior to any state . Withdraw- ing to a sequestered grotto of nature ( " Me to sequester'd scenes , ye muses guide , / Where nature wantons in her virgin - pride " ) , Liv- ingston ...
... nature that he himself would aim at . Going more directly to nature for his imagery , if not to common people for his diction , Wordsworth had corrected the deadeningly false neoclassical taste and self - consciousness of style which ...
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