The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-century PoetsHarvard University Press, 1967 - 237 pages |
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Page 79
... expression of feeling in the first and last stanzas and that in the body of the poem rather undermines the protestations of friend- ship . Only a conventional mode seems to exist for the expression of friendship ; the rest of the ode ...
... expression of feeling in the first and last stanzas and that in the body of the poem rather undermines the protestations of friend- ship . Only a conventional mode seems to exist for the expression of friendship ; the rest of the ode ...
Page 121
... expression directly prompted by nature itself , and exhibiting the true and express image of a mind violently agitated ? " 8 If " the study of art as the evoker of emotion is perhaps even more characteristic of the aes- thetic thought ...
... expression directly prompted by nature itself , and exhibiting the true and express image of a mind violently agitated ? " 8 If " the study of art as the evoker of emotion is perhaps even more characteristic of the aes- thetic thought ...
Page 122
... expression of Ordinary or Enthusiastick Passion , pro- ceeding from Ideas , to which it naturally belongs ; and Poetical Genius in a Poet , is the power of expressing such Passion worthily . " This power , Dennis explains , comes ...
... expression of Ordinary or Enthusiastick Passion , pro- ceeding from Ideas , to which it naturally belongs ; and Poetical Genius in a Poet , is the power of expressing such Passion worthily . " This power , Dennis explains , comes ...
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