The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-century PoetsHarvard University Press, 1967 - 237 pages |
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... images he creates . Yet the shift of emphasis in Cole- ridge's view exemplifies a real imaginative leap . There is a vast gap between the idea that interesting images are the product of passion and the idea that they are interesting ...
... images he creates . Yet the shift of emphasis in Cole- ridge's view exemplifies a real imaginative leap . There is a vast gap between the idea that interesting images are the product of passion and the idea that they are interesting ...
Page 66
... Images with no Choice at all . " The problem of Collins's imagery has seemed crucial ever since . The intellectual discipline which dominates , sometimes excessively , Gray's own images is obviously absent in Collins ; and eighteenth ...
... Images with no Choice at all . " The problem of Collins's imagery has seemed crucial ever since . The intellectual discipline which dominates , sometimes excessively , Gray's own images is obviously absent in Collins ; and eighteenth ...
Page 74
... images . Yet even the images seem fully justified only when the process of seeing is intimately related to that of feeling . In Collins's most successful odes , visual images both derive from and define emotion ; in his weaker poetic ...
... images . Yet even the images seem fully justified only when the process of seeing is intimately related to that of feeling . In Collins's most successful odes , visual images both derive from and define emotion ; in his weaker poetic ...
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