The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-century PoetsHarvard University Press, 1967 - 237 pages |
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Page 35
... beginning of the scientific section , a superficial index of excitement , suggests the poet's awareness that his subject matter did not integrally justify the intensity with which he treats it . His excitement seems theoreti- cal , not ...
... beginning of the scientific section , a superficial index of excitement , suggests the poet's awareness that his subject matter did not integrally justify the intensity with which he treats it . His excitement seems theoreti- cal , not ...
Page 76
... beginning of the ode : that fear's power is destructive as well as inspirational . The epode explores this insight more fully , pointing out that Aeschylus the soldier scorned fear , although Aeschylus the poet was the first to invoke ...
... beginning of the ode : that fear's power is destructive as well as inspirational . The epode explores this insight more fully , pointing out that Aeschylus the soldier scorned fear , although Aeschylus the poet was the first to invoke ...
Page 146
... beginning with " Let " and those beginning with " For , " in the frequent apparent naivete of its utterances , the poem seems the product of a simple , even a primitive , mind . The antiphonal pattern , as Smart understands it , is ...
... beginning with " Let " and those beginning with " For , " in the frequent apparent naivete of its utterances , the poem seems the product of a simple , even a primitive , mind . The antiphonal pattern , as Smart understands it , is ...
Contents
An Introduction to I | 1 |
The Dominance of Meaning | 13 |
The Retreat from Vision | 46 |
Copyright | |
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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