The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-century PoetsHarvard University Press, 1967 - 237 pages |
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... hymns , a product , like his translations of the Psalms , of his interest in reforming Anglican church pro- cedure . Arthur Sherbo has argued convincingly , on the basis of striking parallels in language , that the Song to David , the ...
... hymns , a product , like his translations of the Psalms , of his interest in reforming Anglican church pro- cedure . Arthur Sherbo has argued convincingly , on the basis of striking parallels in language , that the Song to David , the ...
Page 157
... hymns as a deliberate exercise of creative skill , and it is in this way that he differs most fundamentally from the evangelical hymn writers of the eighteenth century . " Unlike the products of his Evangelical contemporaries , Smart's ...
... hymns as a deliberate exercise of creative skill , and it is in this way that he differs most fundamentally from the evangelical hymn writers of the eighteenth century . " Unlike the products of his Evangelical contemporaries , Smart's ...
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... hymns , William Cowper is more renowned than Smart ; his contributions to the Olney Hymns have been ad- mired and sung for almost two centuries . If Smart's hymns gain much of their power from a vision turned freshly outward , Cowper's ...
... hymns , William Cowper is more renowned than Smart ; his contributions to the Olney Hymns have been ad- mired and sung for almost two centuries . If Smart's hymns gain much of their power from a vision turned freshly outward , Cowper's ...
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