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To the palace of wisdom; studies in order and energy from Dryden to Blake.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Price, Martin, 1920-2010 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press [1970]
Series:Arcturus books ; 81.
Subjects:
Dryden, John, > 1631-1700 > Critique et interprétation.
Blake, William, > 1757-1827 > Critique et interprétation.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Littérature anglaise > 17e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
English literature.
English literature > Early modern.
Literatur
Englisch.
1500-1799
Geschichte 1600-1900.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Ideas of order: introduction
  • The fabric of order
  • Order and analogy
  • Order and orders
  • Order, irony, and satire
  • The instance of Pascal
  • 2. Dryden and dialectic
  • The verse form
  • The heroic plays
  • The political satires
  • The religious poems
  • 3. Shaftesbury: order and liberty
  • The triumph of liberty
  • The method of dialogue
  • Art and nature
  • The concrete universal
  • 4. Mandeville: order as art
  • Realism and morality
  • Man as maker
  • Causation and style
  • 5. Pope: art and morality
  • The double vision
  • The problem of scale: the game of art
  • Character and false art
  • The poetry of morality
  • 6. Swift: order and obligation
  • The right and the good
  • The energy of imagination
  • Gulliver's travels
  • 7. The tragedy of mind
  • Sound and meaning
  • A tale of a tub (1704)
  • Martinus Scriblerus
  • The Dunciad (1728-41)
  • 8. Orders and forms
  • Character and causality
  • Integrity and intrigue
  • The mock form
  • 9. The divided heart
  • Defoe's novels
  • Clarissa and Lovelace
  • 10. Fielding: the comedy of forms
  • The energies of virtue
  • The subversion of forms
  • Low and high
  • 11. Sterne: art and nature
  • Chance and choice: Candide and Rasselas
  • The duality of man
  • The art of the natural
  • Tragic and comic: Maria or the dance
  • 12. The theatre of mind
  • Actor and audience
  • The graveyard scene: Edward Young
  • The theatre of nature: James Thomson
  • The sublime
  • Ruins and visions
  • The garden and the wild: the picturesque
  • 13. Blake: vision and satire
  • The vision of innocence
  • States and characters
  • The standard of energy
  • Doubt and the determinate: Blake on art.