The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-century PoetsHarvard University Press, 1967 - 237 pages |
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Page 72
... diction . " Hazlitt re- marked , of the " Ode on the Poetical Character , " " a honeyed paste of poetic diction encrusts it , like the candied coat of the auricula . " 18 If Collins's syntax is frequently an obstacle to his effects ...
... diction . " Hazlitt re- marked , of the " Ode on the Poetical Character , " " a honeyed paste of poetic diction encrusts it , like the candied coat of the auricula . " 18 If Collins's syntax is frequently an obstacle to his effects ...
Page 90
... diction is impure , and A. R. Humphreys attacks him for embodying the worst poetic evils of his day . Time has not on the whole been kind to Gray , although critics are now beginning once more to give him serious attention . One reason ...
... diction is impure , and A. R. Humphreys attacks him for embodying the worst poetic evils of his day . Time has not on the whole been kind to Gray , although critics are now beginning once more to give him serious attention . One reason ...
Page 200
... diction conforms ex- actly to the meanings it is intended to convey . His verse seems dependably good when its ... diction " ) , 3 most of these lines are excellent examples of " vicious diction , " in spite of the fact that , with some ...
... diction conforms ex- actly to the meanings it is intended to convey . His verse seems dependably good when its ... diction " ) , 3 most of these lines are excellent examples of " vicious diction , " in spite of the fact that , with some ...
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