The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-century PoetsHarvard University Press, 1967 - 237 pages |
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Page 43
... birds , yet a long tradition tells us that they are the special care of heaven , and although they toil not , they too have a boon assigned them in the face of winter . The robin , among them , is in a special position ; his " boon ...
... birds , yet a long tradition tells us that they are the special care of heaven , and although they toil not , they too have a boon assigned them in the face of winter . The robin , among them , is in a special position ; his " boon ...
Page 96
... birds sing an " amorous Descant , " fields , " chearful , " " resume their green Attire . " So emphatic is the insist- ence that even the inanimate universe partakes of the nature and values of man that it becomes almost painful which ...
... birds sing an " amorous Descant , " fields , " chearful , " " resume their green Attire . " So emphatic is the insist- ence that even the inanimate universe partakes of the nature and values of man that it becomes almost painful which ...
Page 160
... Birds on box and laurels listen , As so near the cherubs hymn . Spinks and ouzles sing sublimely , ' We too have a ... birds , while birds in turn produce " sublime " songs of praise . On the other hand , the first stanza quoted and the ...
... Birds on box and laurels listen , As so near the cherubs hymn . Spinks and ouzles sing sublimely , ' We too have a ... birds , while birds in turn produce " sublime " songs of praise . On the other hand , the first stanza quoted and the ...
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