The Poetics of Epiphany: Nineteenth-century Origins of the Modern Literary Moment

ability achieves aesthetic Artist aspect associations autobiographical Browning Browning's Caponsacchi claims Coleridge Coleridge's consciousness derives described divine edition elevation Eliot emotion emphasis ence epiph epiphanic imagination essence eternity experience feeling flashes Gerard Manley Hopkins Heaney Hopkins Hopkins's human illumination important inspiration instant intense interpretation James Joyce Joyce Joyce's leech-gatherer light literary epiphany London lyric Lyrical Ballads M. H. Abrams manifestation meaning Memoriam memory mental ments mind mind's momentary moments monologues mystical nature notes object ordinary perception poem poet poet's poetic poetry Pompilia Prelude produce radiate reveals revelatory rience role Romantic says scene Seamus Heaney sensations sense Shelley Shelley's significance soul spirit star Stephen Stevens sudden suggests symbol T. S. Eliot Tennyson theophanic things thought tion traditional trance trans transformed truth unity Victorian Virginia Woolf vision voice W. B. Yeats Wallace Stevens William Wordsworth words Wordsworth Wordsworth's spots Wordsworthian Yeats Yeats's York