The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-century PoetsHarvard University Press, 1967 - 237 pages |
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Page 51
... effects are vividly different ; the dif- ference resides more in structure than in language . The thirteen lines from ... effect on the ear . This con- centration on relationships produces a certain structural awkward- ness which makes ...
... effects are vividly different ; the dif- ference resides more in structure than in language . The thirteen lines from ... effect on the ear . This con- centration on relationships produces a certain structural awkward- ness which makes ...
Page 53
... effect of the simile is one of a series of similar effects which contribute importantly to the " atmosphere " of The Castle but directly contradict the poem's explicit moral , that effort is superior to indolence . Morally , of course ...
... effect of the simile is one of a series of similar effects which contribute importantly to the " atmosphere " of The Castle but directly contradict the poem's explicit moral , that effort is superior to indolence . Morally , of course ...
Page 147
... effect , mov- ing suddenly outward from the obsessively , self - pityingly personal to the universal . It implies the poet's own recognition of the narrow- ing of perception involved in his earlier employment of his knowl- edge of ...
... effect , mov- ing suddenly outward from the obsessively , self - pityingly personal to the universal . It implies the poet's own recognition of the narrow- ing of perception involved in his earlier employment of his knowl- edge of ...
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