"To gaze" in Collins's Ode on the Poetical Character.(William Collins )(Critical essay)

From: The Explicator | Date: March 22, 2007| Author: Jung, Sandro | Copyright information

Scholars have rarely recognized the poetics of the "gaze" in pre-Romantic poetry. The mid-eighteenth-century poet William Collins is an example of a poet whose ideas of inspiration and its experience are clearly linked with the poet's "gaze." In his "Ode to a Lady," Collins speaker "gaze[s] with fix'd Delight" (1) (33) transfixed in a state of complete physical paralysis in which he absorbs and is completely absorbed by an experience of the sublime, a state that Collins depicts in ...

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