The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-century PoetsHarvard University Press, 1967 - 237 pages |
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Page 102
... awareness of those horrors . A few years after Gray wrote his Eton ode , Dr. Johnson , in " The Vanity of Hu- man Wishes , " suggested his scorn of the suppliant for long life who Hides from himself his state , and shuns to know , That ...
... awareness of those horrors . A few years after Gray wrote his Eton ode , Dr. Johnson , in " The Vanity of Hu- man Wishes , " suggested his scorn of the suppliant for long life who Hides from himself his state , and shuns to know , That ...
Page 187
... awareness modulating imperceptibly into moral . The sun , at first an image of great power , loses force as it rises . First " with ruddy orb / Ascending , [ it ] fires th'horizon " ( ll . 1-2 ) ; the regal associa- tions of orb support ...
... awareness modulating imperceptibly into moral . The sun , at first an image of great power , loses force as it rises . First " with ruddy orb / Ascending , [ it ] fires th'horizon " ( ll . 1-2 ) ; the regal associa- tions of orb support ...
Page 202
... awareness , they also demonstrate little psychic awareness . What " perception " they display seems theoretical ( " philosophical , " Cowper might say ) rather than direct , the product of what the poet has been told , not what he has ...
... awareness , they also demonstrate little psychic awareness . What " perception " they display seems theoretical ( " philosophical , " Cowper might say ) rather than direct , the product of what the poet has been told , not what he has ...
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