The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-century PoetsHarvard University Press, 1967 - 237 pages |
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... figures as the sup- porting example for such a point of view . He is praised because , in a passage of landscape description ... figure.9 If there was little disagreement in Thomson's own century about his skill at detailed , accurate ...
... figures as the sup- porting example for such a point of view . He is praised because , in a passage of landscape description ... figure.9 If there was little disagreement in Thomson's own century about his skill at detailed , accurate ...
Page 75
... figure of Pity , thus realized , becomes a correlative , a symbol , of the ' idea ' and its attendant emotion . " 20 The slight visual suggestions of the personi- fication are so rich in meaning that they give Pity almost super- natural ...
... figure of Pity , thus realized , becomes a correlative , a symbol , of the ' idea ' and its attendant emotion . " 20 The slight visual suggestions of the personi- fication are so rich in meaning that they give Pity almost super- natural ...
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... figure at some length . Chastity's qualities of char- acter ( she is fearful , distrustful , wise , suspicious ) are clearly more significant than her appearance , but the final couplet hints a visual reality as well . The primary ...
... figure at some length . Chastity's qualities of char- acter ( she is fearful , distrustful , wise , suspicious ) are clearly more significant than her appearance , but the final couplet hints a visual reality as well . The primary ...
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