The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-century PoetsHarvard University Press, 1967 - 237 pages |
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Page 4
... feeling , both sensuous and emotional . Initially , we learn that the snowfall is " by most unfelt . " By the end of the passage , we know that earth receives her mantle " gladly , " and that snow protects " the green / And tender blade ...
... feeling , both sensuous and emotional . Initially , we learn that the snowfall is " by most unfelt . " By the end of the passage , we know that earth receives her mantle " gladly , " and that snow protects " the green / And tender blade ...
Page 78
... feeling rather than logic must test the poet's material . And his meaning has been ordered , once more , by a pat- tern of imagery which appears to have been dictated more nearly by free association than by an a priori conception of ...
... feeling rather than logic must test the poet's material . And his meaning has been ordered , once more , by a pat- tern of imagery which appears to have been dictated more nearly by free association than by an a priori conception of ...
Page 79
... feeling frame the poem . It opens with reference to Collins's friendship for Home : think far off how , on the southern coast , I met thy friendship with an equal flame ! ( ll . 11-12 ) The concluding lines of the final stanza appeal to ...
... feeling frame the poem . It opens with reference to Collins's friendship for Home : think far off how , on the southern coast , I met thy friendship with an equal flame ! ( ll . 11-12 ) The concluding lines of the final stanza appeal to ...
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