The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-century PoetsHarvard University Press, 1967 - 237 pages |
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Page 56
... Interest , Envy , Pride , and Strife are banish'd hence . The technique of this stanza reveals the poet's precise awareness of the values of Augustan terminology . Such positive terms as Good - natur'd , tender , social Sense are ...
... Interest , Envy , Pride , and Strife are banish'd hence . The technique of this stanza reveals the poet's precise awareness of the values of Augustan terminology . Such positive terms as Good - natur'd , tender , social Sense are ...
Page 113
... interest in conflict . Those ordered away include Ignorance , with looks profound , And dreaming Sloth of pallid hue , Mad Sedition's cry profane , Servitude that hugs her chain , painted Flatt'ry [ who ] hide [ s ] her serpent - train ...
... interest in conflict . Those ordered away include Ignorance , with looks profound , And dreaming Sloth of pallid hue , Mad Sedition's cry profane , Servitude that hugs her chain , painted Flatt'ry [ who ] hide [ s ] her serpent - train ...
Page 164
... interest in words , in the value of names , so often apparent in Jubilate Agno , but the interest is not fully controlled . Lack of control mars other of the hymns as well . Yet their accomplishment as a group is great , and ...
... interest in words , in the value of names , so often apparent in Jubilate Agno , but the interest is not fully controlled . Lack of control mars other of the hymns as well . Yet their accomplishment as a group is great , and ...
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