Visits to Bedlam: Madness and Literature in the Eighteenth CenturyUniversity of South Carolina Press, 1974 - 200 Seiten |
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... poem . Swift flogs for the sake of flogging . It is a dismal confirmation of all that we have been saying about the Augustan response to madness to find Swift turning thus , in a moment of extravagant anger , almost naturally to a ...
... poem . Swift flogs for the sake of flogging . It is a dismal confirmation of all that we have been saying about the Augustan response to madness to find Swift turning thus , in a moment of extravagant anger , almost naturally to a ...
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... poets over whom the shadows of mental breakdown fell is far too long to be coincidence.3 Finally , he remarks that ... poem with the promising title " Reason and Imagi- nation " proves to be only a conventional fable of reconciliation ...
... poets over whom the shadows of mental breakdown fell is far too long to be coincidence.3 Finally , he remarks that ... poem with the promising title " Reason and Imagi- nation " proves to be only a conventional fable of reconciliation ...
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... poets believe that it does , & in ages of imagination this firm perswasion removed mountains " ( p . 153 ) . It is the same point Blake makes sarcastically in his poem to Cowper : For ' tis atrocious in a Friend you love To tell you any ...
... poets believe that it does , & in ages of imagination this firm perswasion removed mountains " ( p . 153 ) . It is the same point Blake makes sarcastically in his poem to Cowper : For ' tis atrocious in a Friend you love To tell you any ...
Inhalt
CHAPTER TWO The Dunciad and Augustan Madness | 12 |
CHAPTER THREE Swift | 58 |
CHAPTER FOUR Johnson | 88 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Alexander Cruden animals attack Augustan Age become Bedlam beginning Bertrand Bronson Blake Blake's blindness Book Boswell Burke calls chains chapter Cheyne Cowper danger darkness Defoe describe disease disorder distemper divine dreams Dulness Dunces Dunciad earlier early eighteenth century eighteenth century England English Malady enthusiast Essay example excrement fear feel folly Fool forces Foucault genius Gothic novels Gulliver's Gulliver's Travels Houyhnhnms Ibid ideas imagination Imlac insanity inspiration intellectual irrationality Johnson Jonathan Swift kind King Lear Lear's madness light literary literature Locke lunatic madhouses madman Madness and Civilization means melancholy metaphor mid-century moral nature Ned Ward never passion poem poet Poetical poetry Pope and Swift Pope's poverty private madhouses Rambler Rasselas reality reason religious remarks Renaissance Richardson Romantic Samuel Johnson Sancroft sane sanity satire satirist says scene seems sense speaks spirit Spleen Sublime Tale things thought truth Vapours victims vision William writes