The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-century PoetsHarvard University Press, 1967 - 237 pages |
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... imagery whatever , precisely , imagery might mean seems in some ways singularly modern : our own era has its exponents of image - making as the supreme poetic skill . " It is better to present one Image in a lifetime than to produce ...
... imagery whatever , precisely , imagery might mean seems in some ways singularly modern : our own era has its exponents of image - making as the supreme poetic skill . " It is better to present one Image in a lifetime than to produce ...
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... imagery , insisting that even descrip- tive poetry does not actually create images in the reader's mind and that it would be less powerful if it did so , 11 Goldsmith could retort , in the Monthly Review , that " Distinctness of imagery ...
... imagery , insisting that even descrip- tive poetry does not actually create images in the reader's mind and that it would be less powerful if it did so , 11 Goldsmith could retort , in the Monthly Review , that " Distinctness of imagery ...
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Patricia Meyer Spacks. successive inhabitants . Imagery has dictated thought - if thought it can be called . - The ode's imagery concentrates in detail on ideas of height and of divinity , the two closely related — one sometimes a ...
Patricia Meyer Spacks. successive inhabitants . Imagery has dictated thought - if thought it can be called . - The ode's imagery concentrates in detail on ideas of height and of divinity , the two closely related — one sometimes a ...
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