The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-century PoetsHarvard University Press, 1967 - 237 pages |
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Page 82
... function for the legendary material . Instead of being relevant simply as the stuff of imaginative stimulation , the legend becomes an emotive objectification of the horror always potential immediately outside the bounds of normalcy ...
... function for the legendary material . Instead of being relevant simply as the stuff of imaginative stimulation , the legend becomes an emotive objectification of the horror always potential immediately outside the bounds of normalcy ...
Page 103
... function of wisdom , too , is merely folly . When rhetoric is virtually abandoned , as in the concluding stanza , and the poet speaks directly of his sense of the ultimate disorder of experience , his revelation is the more forceful for ...
... function of wisdom , too , is merely folly . When rhetoric is virtually abandoned , as in the concluding stanza , and the poet speaks directly of his sense of the ultimate disorder of experience , his revelation is the more forceful for ...
Page 108
... function of words in " The Progress of Poesy " reflects the stress on function which dominates this ode ; the attention such emphasis produces to the movement of ideas is appropriate for a poem whose nominal subject is the move- ment of ...
... function of words in " The Progress of Poesy " reflects the stress on function which dominates this ode ; the attention such emphasis produces to the movement of ideas is appropriate for a poem whose nominal subject is the move- ment 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