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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... poetry is not a narrative of sublime moments but a chronicle of the quotidian . " 11 Writing palpably within a Protestant tradition of exalted feeling and high truths modeled after the Devine Weekes of the Calvinist poet , Du Bartas ...
... poetry worked in Bryant to " suggest [ s ] both the sensible object and the association . " Poetry arranges words as God arranges wondrous items ( like space- swimming waterfowls ) in nature , to solicit moods of pious arousal : " Poetry ...
The Genealogy of a Poetic Genre Rob Wilson. Public Monuments and Modern Poets ( Ithaca , N.Y .: Cornell Univ . Press , 1985 ) ... Poetry ( Berkeley and Los Angeles : Univ . of California Press , 1964 ) : 48-77 , 224-48 . 18 Figurative ...
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