![]() ![]() A further example for this would be De Quinceyâs dismay regarding the complete neglect of English authors at university. Balfour rightly asserts that De Quincey establishes Wordsworth as a poet of the sublime and of a national poetry and, at the same time, downgrades Greek literature. After quoting and discussing examples from articles about Kant, Shakespeare and Milton, Balfour connects the sublime and the discourse of the nation in De Quinceyâs writings on Wordsworth. He begins with some examples of the sublime in De Quinceyâs writing and given the vast scope, focuses on passages where it is âof the order of the ne plus ultraâ (166). Balfour connects De Quinceyâs discourses of the sublime and the nation. ![]() It would be interesting to read more about De Quinceyâs possible alcohol addiction, which is only alluded to and even denied, though the amount of alcohol he drank to manage his opium intake strongly suggests that he was also under an alcohol dependence. ![]() ![]() Vehemence against China in his essays of the late 1850s might well be an act of projection, completely ignoring blatant similarities between his own situation and that which he criticises in those essays. J ohn B eer, Romanticism, Revolution and Language: The Fate of the Word from Samuel Johnson to. J ohn B eer, Romanticism, Revolution and Language: The Fate of the Word from Samuel Johnson to George Eliot (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. ![]()
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