'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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2016
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