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- catalog abstract ""McSweeney discusses the sensory acuity that informs the finest achievements of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Thoreau, Whitman, and Dickinson and which, when blunted by illness or age, contributes to an attenuation of their creative power. He supplies a "sensory profile" or sensory history for each author and through close readings shows how this profile affected their relationship to the external world and their powers of symbolic perception."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b10712485.
- catalog coverage "English-speaking countries Intellectual life 19th century.".
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description ""McSweeney discusses the sensory acuity that informs the finest achievements of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Thoreau, Whitman, and Dickinson and which, when blunted by illness or age, contributes to an attenuation of their creative power. He supplies a "sensory profile" or sensory history for each author and through close readings shows how this profile affected their relationship to the external world and their powers of symbolic perception."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "1. Organic Sensibility -- 2. Symbolic Perception -- 3. Sublime or Mock Sublime? -- 4. Wordsworth's Mighty World of Eye and Ear -- 5. Coleridge's Blessed Interval -- 6. Thoreau: A Purely Sensuous Life -- 7. Whitman: The Feeling of Health -- 8. Dickinson: The Glimmering Frontier -- 9. Afterword: Two Victorian Seers.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 208 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0773517405 :".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press,".
- catalog spatial "English-speaking countries Intellectual life 19th century.".
- catalog subject "821/.809 21".
- catalog subject "American literature 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American poetry 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English poetry 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PN56.S47 M38 1998".
- catalog subject "PS217.S46 M38 1998".
- catalog subject "Perception in literature.".
- catalog subject "Perception.".
- catalog subject "Senses and sensation in literature.".
- catalog subject "Senses and sensation.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Organic Sensibility -- 2. Symbolic Perception -- 3. Sublime or Mock Sublime? -- 4. Wordsworth's Mighty World of Eye and Ear -- 5. Coleridge's Blessed Interval -- 6. Thoreau: A Purely Sensuous Life -- 7. Whitman: The Feeling of Health -- 8. Dickinson: The Glimmering Frontier -- 9. Afterword: Two Victorian Seers.".
- catalog title "The language of the senses : sensory-perceptual dynamics in Wordsworth, Coleridge, Thoreau, Whitman and Dickinson / Kerry McSweeney.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".