The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-century PoetsHarvard University Press, 1967 - 237 pages |
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Page 53
... emotional appeal the appeal , largely , of luxurious ease of Thomson's personages . The silvery gleam of the moonlight , the fact that it is a summer moon , that the woods are distant , the portal airy : these details also add to the ...
... emotional appeal the appeal , largely , of luxurious ease of Thomson's personages . The silvery gleam of the moonlight , the fact that it is a summer moon , that the woods are distant , the portal airy : these details also add to the ...
Page 54
... emotion . " Both schools , all the critics , based every argument upon emotion , its workings , its powers , its connection with objects . " + Critical dispute centered , rather , on the method by which emotional power could best be ...
... emotion . " Both schools , all the critics , based every argument upon emotion , its workings , its powers , its connection with objects . " + Critical dispute centered , rather , on the method by which emotional power could best be ...
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... emotional riches of the En- chanter . But although Thomson was fully aware of the compelling emotional power of indolence , he combated it in the poem by his discussion of the proper function of poetry . Professor McKillop suggests that ...
... emotional riches of the En- chanter . But although Thomson was fully aware of the compelling emotional power of indolence , he combated it in the poem by his discussion of the proper function of poetry . Professor McKillop suggests that ...
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