caa a22 4500 463200209 CHVBK 20180405153110.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11061-007-9026-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11061-007-9026-3 Jung Sandro School of English, Sociology, Politics & Contemporary History, The University of Salford, Crescent House, M5 4WT, Salford, Greater Manchester, UK aut William Collins, grace and the "cest of amplest power” [Elektronische Daten] [Sandro Jung] The aesthetic concept of "grace” has usually been neglected by scholars in favour of the Burkean sublime. This article aims to contextualise the complexity of the idea of grace by relating it to discussions of ethics, religion and literature, considering, among others, critics such as Shaftesbury, William Warburton, John Gilbert Cooper and Schiller. William Collins's "Ode on the Poetical Character” (1746) will be read against the complexity of this idea; especially one image, that of the "cest of amplest power,” the cestus of chastity (Spenser) and inspiration (Collins), will be considered as a medium through which poetic inspiration can be conferred on the supplicating poet. Collins's rewriting and inverting of traditional (creation) gender stereotypes, the ambivalent mythological figure of Aphrodite, Spenser's Florimel episode as well as Collins's manipulations of myths and texts culminate in a unique application of the concept of grace which testifies to the importance that such an important poet as Collins assigned to it. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2007 William Collins (1721-59) nationallicence "Ode on the Poetical Character” nationallicence Grace nationallicence Aesthetics nationallicence Inspiration nationallicence Sublime nationallicence Spenser nationallicence Aphrodite nationallicence Cestus of Venus nationallicence Neophilologus Kluwer Academic Publishers 91/3(2007-07-01), 539-554 0028-2677 91:3<539 2007 91 11061 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-007-9026-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-007-9026-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Jung Sandro School of English, Sociology, Politics & Contemporary History, The University of Salford, Crescent House, M5 4WT, Salford, Greater Manchester, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Neophilologus Kluwer Academic Publishers 91/3(2007-07-01), 539-554 0028-2677 91:3<539 2007 91 11061 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer