The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-century PoetsHarvard University Press, 1967 - 237 pages |
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Page 66
... Collins ; and eighteenth - century and modern critics have tended to agree that Collins's unique imagery is the main source of his poetic power . " His originality consists in his manner , " wrote Mrs. Barbauld , with surprising ...
... Collins ; and eighteenth - century and modern critics have tended to agree that Collins's unique imagery is the main source of his poetic power . " His originality consists in his manner , " wrote Mrs. Barbauld , with surprising ...
Page 72
... Collins's " unfinished or inexact syntax . " 17 Then there is the problem of diction , the " great Variety of Words " which Gray noticed . Collins prefixed to his odes a motto from Pindar beginning , " May I be deviser of diction ...
... Collins's " unfinished or inexact syntax . " 17 Then there is the problem of diction , the " great Variety of Words " which Gray noticed . Collins prefixed to his odes a motto from Pindar beginning , " May I be deviser of diction ...
Page 83
... Collins's development - one might almost say , on his discovery - of the latent potential of personification as a poetic medium . " 27 Collins's view of the imagination , Professor Woodhouse believes , is also crucial to his success ...
... Collins's development - one might almost say , on his discovery - of the latent potential of personification as a poetic medium . " 27 Collins's view of the imagination , Professor Woodhouse believes , is also crucial to his success ...
Contents
An Introduction to I | 1 |
The Dominance of Meaning | 13 |
The Retreat from Vision | 46 |
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abstract achievement adjectives aesthetic animal antistrophe appears artifice asserts associated awareness Bard beauty birds canto Castle of Indolence century characteristic Christopher Smart Collins Collins's complex concern conflict contrast Cowper creates critics define demonstrates describes diction divine dominates effect eighteenth eighteenth-century poetry emotional emphasis Essay example expression fancy Fear feeling final function Gray Gray's human hymns ideas imagery images imagination implies important insists James Thomson John Aikin Joseph Warton Josephine Miles Jubilate Agno language lines London meaning metaphor Milton mode moral natural world passage pattern perceives perception periphrasis personifications Pindaric poem poem's poet poet's Poetry London praise precisely provides reader reality relation reveals rhetorical scene Seasons seems sense significant Song to David sort soul specific spiritual Spring stanza structure suggests technique Thomas Gray Thomson Thomsonian thought tion truth verse virtue vision visual vivid William Cowper Winter word