Ruins and Empire: The Evolution of a Theme in Augustan and Romantic LiteratureUniversity of Pittsburgh Press, 1977 - 272 pagina's One of the most common scenes in Augustan and Romantic literature is that of a writer confronting some emblem of change and loss, most often the remains of a vanished civilization or a desolate natural landscape. Ruins and Empire traces the ruin sentiment from its earliest classical and Renaissance expressions through English literature to its establishment as a dominant theme of early American art. |
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Pagina 63
... beauty to the city , a desirable quality that she will later recognize as the " Great Article that supported my Interest " ( p . 105 ) . Defoe attributed to beauty the ruin of all mankind , for , as he never tires of repeating in his ...
... beauty to the city , a desirable quality that she will later recognize as the " Great Article that supported my Interest " ( p . 105 ) . Defoe attributed to beauty the ruin of all mankind , for , as he never tires of repeating in his ...
Pagina 68
... beauty attracts all men . She remarks that : I cou'd not but reflect upon the Brutallity and blindness of Mankind ; that because Nature had given me a good Skin , and some agreeable Features , should suffer that Beauty to be such a Bait ...
... beauty attracts all men . She remarks that : I cou'd not but reflect upon the Brutallity and blindness of Mankind ; that because Nature had given me a good Skin , and some agreeable Features , should suffer that Beauty to be such a Bait ...
Pagina 140
... beauty he had before seen only in dreams . " To attain these creatures he must , like them , become enchanted by a Satanic ambition . The rewards are intense and ecstatic pleasures , the cost a perpetual yearning for ag- grandizement ...
... beauty he had before seen only in dreams . " To attain these creatures he must , like them , become enchanted by a Satanic ambition . The rewards are intense and ecstatic pleasures , the cost a perpetual yearning for ag- grandizement ...
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Young Girls Dancing Around an Obelisk by Hubert Robert ii | 30 |
Roxana and Empire | 59 |
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Ruins and Empire: The Evolution of a Theme in Augustan and Romantic Literature Laurence Goldstein Gedeeltelijke weergave - 1977 |
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America beauty Blake Blake's Book Busiris Byron child childhood civilization Cowper death decay Defoe Defoe's deluge describes Deserted Village desire despair destruction Dorothy Dorothy Wordsworth dream Dyer Dyer's earth eighteenth century empire England English essay fear feel Felpham Fleece French Revolution glory Goldsmith Grongar Hill happiness heaven Hervey Home at Grasmere horror human images imagination immortality imperial John John Dyer landscape later Letters live London luxury M. H. Abrams melancholy memory Milton mind moral nation nature Night Thoughts Oliver Goldsmith Oxford paradise passage pastoral pleasure poem poet poet's poetic poetry political praise Prelude preserve prophetic Prose Revolution Roman Roxana ruin sentiment Ruins of Rome Salisbury Plain Satan scene soul Spenser spirit Stonehenge symbol things thou Tintern Abbey tion trade University Press vale verse verse paragraph vision wanderer William William Blake William Cowper Wordsworth worldly writes wrote York Young
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