The sublime / [print]
edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom ; volume editor, Blake Hobby.
- New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, (c)2010.
- xviii, 296 pages ; 25 cm.
- Bloom's literary themes .
- Bloom's literary themes. .
Includes bibliographies and index.
The awakening (Kate Chopin): "The awakening: waking up at the end of the line" / Barbara Claire Freeman -- Duino elegies (Rainer Maria Rilke): "Stimmen, stimmen: the chorus of the sublime in Rilke's Duino elgies" / David Brendan Hopes -- Emma (Jane Austen): "'Hurrying into the shrubbery': the sublime, transcendence, and the garden scene in Emma" / David C. MacWilliams -- "The fall of the house of Usher" (Edgar Allan Poe): "The sublime in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The fall of the house of Usher'" / Blake Hobby -- The four zoas (William Blake): "Urizen and the fragmentary experience of the sublime in The four zoas" / Blake Hobby -- Frankenstein (Mary Shelley): "Frankenstein: creation as catastrophe" / Paul Sherwin -- "God's grandeur" (Gerard Manley Hopkins): "elements of the longinian sublime in the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins" / Robert C. Evans -- The poetry of Homer and Sappho: selection from Longinus's On the sublime, (ca. 1st century A.D.) -- The poetry of John Keats: "The tragic sublime of Hazlitt and Keats" / W.P. Albrecht -- King Lear (William Shakespeare): "Othello; MacBeth; Lear" / Edward Dowden -- "Kubla Kahn" [sic] (Samuel Taylor Coleridge): "The sublime in Coleridge's 'Kubla Khan'" / Robert C. Evans -- "Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey" (William Wordsworth): "A poem about interiors" / Albert O. Wlecke -- The poetry of Robert Lowell: "Robert Lowell, Emerson, and the American sublime" / Henry Hart -- Moby-Dick (Herman Melville): "The inscrutable sublime and the whiteness of Moby-Dick" / John Becker -- Paradise Lost (John Milton): "Milton" / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- "Ode to the west wind" (Percy Bysshe Shelley): "'Ode to the west wind' and 'Mont blanc': Shelley and the method of the sublime" / David Brendan Hopes -- Song of myself (Walt Whitman): "The sublime self: Whitman's sense of the sublime in Song of myself" / David Brenden Hopes -- The poetry of William Butler Yeats: "Yeats: tragic joy and the sublime" / Jahan R. Ramazani.