'When tuneful bards awak'd the song sublime': the bardic sublime in Romantic poetry, 1750-1825

<p>This thesis introduces my conception of the “bardic sublime” in the poetry of Thomas Gray, William Blake, William Wordsworth and Felicia Hemans. I present the bardic sublime as a form of poetic rhetoric: one which foregrounds the affective qualities associated with the ancient Welsh bard –...

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Main Author:	Fender, KA
Other Authors:	McAlpine, E
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2016
Subjects:	William Blake William Wordsworth Thomas Gray Eighteenth-century poetry Welsh Romantic literature Edmund Burke Wales Eighteenth-century Bards Celticism Romantic poetry Eighteenth-century literature Romantic art Poetry Eighteenth-century art Wales in literature The sublime Long eighteenth century Romanticism Felicia Hemans The Romantic period Landscape Cultural memory Druids

'When tuneful bards awak'd the song sublime': the bardic sublime in Romantic poetry, 1750-1825

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