The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-century PoetsHarvard University Press, 1967 - 237 pages |
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Page 3
... contrast , too , in the snow's function as adornment for the fields and as burden for the woods ; visual contrast between the snow's whiteness and the black- ness of its melting on the water ; the contrast of paradox in " dazzling waste ...
... contrast , too , in the snow's function as adornment for the fields and as burden for the woods ; visual contrast between the snow's whiteness and the black- ness of its melting on the water ; the contrast of paradox in " dazzling waste ...
Page 125
... contrast with strong emphasis on contrast . Even when the opposition between , say , two members of the animal kingdom is inherent in their natures , Smart frequently makes of it something complicated . the beaver plods his task ; While ...
... contrast with strong emphasis on contrast . Even when the opposition between , say , two members of the animal kingdom is inherent in their natures , Smart frequently makes of it something complicated . the beaver plods his task ; While ...
Page 182
... contrast which had interested Thomson and Akenside . The prisoner , the invalid , the sailor de- prived of sight of land : these appreciate the " feast " spread by nature ( 1. 433 ) more than can men to whom that feast is constantly ...
... contrast which had interested Thomson and Akenside . The prisoner , the invalid , the sailor de- prived of sight of land : these appreciate the " feast " spread by nature ( 1. 433 ) more than can men to whom that feast is constantly ...
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