Add to ORKGThis essay examines two poems depicting human anguish in order to explore a current in Romantic thought that implicitly yields some original and compelling insights regarding the problematic relationship between art and suffering. The focus is primarily on Wordsworth\u27s narrative of Margaret\u27s suffering in The Excursion, then more briefly on Shelley\u27s Prometheus Unbound. In both cases Kant\u27s ideas about the sublime provide us with a useful perspective from which to understand the issues these poems raise
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In every life, there comes a moment when one wonders if a greater meaning exists beyond this mundane...
The sublime has been gendered as male even into the twentieth century. The purpose of this study is ...
Authors and philosophers in the long 19th century were heavily influenced by the concept of the subl...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1996This dissertation addresses the persistent problems i...
The nature and role of sublime experience has been an enduring topic of discussion in the history of...
This study uses the interdisciplinary lens of Romantic medical ethics to reconsider received ideas a...
Influenced by Enlightenment philosophes like Rousseau and Smith, Romantic writers, such as Coleridge...
British Romanticism is commonly conceived as a turn to the interior and to nature in the midst of th...
This thesis examines the intersection of poetry about art, the culture of sensibility, and eighteent...
Romantic Descent investigates disappointment as a minor, or non-cathartic, critical and aesthetic ca...
Theorists of the sublime have struggled to make the category coherent because they have collapsed it...
The Romantic period coincides with a fundamental shift in Western attitudes toward death and dying. ...
It is a commonplace of the study of Romanticism that Wordsworth is the Romantic poet of the sublime ...
The current study has sought to examine human suffering as depicted in 'Morning at the Window', by W...
“Sensation Poetry and Social Imagination” unearths a vital but forgotten chapter in the history of B...
In every life, there comes a moment when one wonders if a greater meaning exists beyond this mundane...
The sublime has been gendered as male even into the twentieth century. The purpose of this study is ...
Authors and philosophers in the long 19th century were heavily influenced by the concept of the subl...