Excerpt from The Pleasures of Imagination
Sources of his ideas. He sat down to this work, which was published at the early age of three and twenty, warm from the schools of ancient philosophy, whose spirit he had deeply imbibed, and full of enthusiasm for the treasures of Greek and Roman literature. The works of no author have a more classic air than those of our Poet. His hymn to the Na'iads shows the most intimate acquaintance with their mythology. Their laws, their arts, their liberty, were equally objects of his warm admiration, and are frequently referred to in various parts of his Poems. He was fond of the Platonic philosophy, and mingled with the splendid visions of the Academic school, ideas of the fair and beautiful, in morals and in taste, gathered from the writings of shaftes bury, hutcninson, and others of that stamp, who then very much engaged the notice of the public. Educated in the university of Edinburgh, he joined to his classic literature the' keen discriminating.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book endeavors to examine the influence of imagination on art and life through the lens of three broad categories: the sublime, the wonderful, and the beautiful. The author posits that great art is able to capture these elements in fresh and original ways. Given that nature itself is the genesis of all that is beautiful, the author argues that it is by studying nature that we can enhance and improve art. The book delves into the history of some of our most well-known works of art, from Milton's Paradise Lost to Shakespeare's greatest plays, to showcase the profound, inspirational, and instructive potential of imagination. The author contends that, through imagination, we can approach the divine. In a chaotic world, this book offers a way to find beauty and meaning through the power of imagination. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Seller Inventory # 9781332751495_0
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