Personification and the Sublime by Steven Knapp

Personification and the Sublime

Steven Knapp

178 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics literary poetry informative reflective medium-paced
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Eighteenth-century and Romantic readers had a peculiar habit of calling personified abstractions "sublime." This has always seemed mysterious, since the same readers so often expressed a feeling that there was something wrong with turning ideas i...

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