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Index 289Duino Elegies (Rilke), 27–35conditionals in, 29–30sublimity in, 30–32, 35voices of, 28, 30–33E“Easter 1916” (Yeats), 28, 29, 266Edwards, Jonathan, 191elegy, 258Eliot, T. S., 188, 202, 207, 211Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 188–211,247–248abyss in, 197–198idealism of, 189, 190, 195, 196,206–207Kant and, 198–199Lowell’s critique of, 188, 196–197,201–211New Critics and, 188–189political consequences of ideals of,200–201on religious enthusiasm, 190–192romanticization of past by, 199on the sublime, 192–194,197–201transcendentalism of, 199–200Unitarianism of, 202–203view of history of, 204–206,209–210Winters on, 195Emma (Austen), 37–42Emma in, 39–42garden scene in, 38–42Knightley in, 39–42narration in, 40–41sublime in, 38–42Ende, Stuart A., 121–122, 123“Endymion” (Keats), 120–121enthusiasm, 190–192eternal recurrence, 264eugenics, 273evil, 119, 121, 139, 196, 215as delusion, 114good and, 56–57, 125excess, 4, 5, 13, 16, 96Excursion, The (Wordsworth), 164FFall of Hyperion, The (Keats), 123,124–125“Fall of the House of Usher, the”(Poe), 45–54dreamlike imagery in, 48as horror story, 45narrator of, 50–53Roderick Usher in, 49–50sublime in, 46–54fanaticism, 192, 272“Fascination of What’s Difficult”(Yeats), 269–270fascism, 276fate, 221–222feminine sublime, 5feminism, 280n21Ferguson, Frances, 22n14“Fish, The” (Yeats), 268foul weather, 39Four Zoas, The (Blake), 55–63“Night the Eighth,” 59“Night the Ninth,” 59–60“Night the Sixth,” 58–59Rahab in, 59–60, 62Urizen in, 55–63Frankenstein (Shelley), 65–87anti-Gothic novel within, 67creative process in, 68–71, 73–75,77–83Creature in, 66, 68–71, 75–79, 85despair in, 77–78Freudian reading of, 67–72, 75narrative consciousness in, 73–74Walton in, 65–66