The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-century PoetsHarvard University Press, 1967 - 237 pages |
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... mind . ( “ Summer , ” ll . 1748-1752 ) With livelier sense than what ? The phrase suggests the poet's con- viction that the impressions of fancy are more vivid , more intense , than literal sense impressions . " The mind's creative eye ...
... mind . ( “ Summer , ” ll . 1748-1752 ) With livelier sense than what ? The phrase suggests the poet's con- viction that the impressions of fancy are more vivid , more intense , than literal sense impressions . " The mind's creative eye ...
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... minds / As on our smiling eyes his servant - sun " ( ll . 340-341 ) . Yet the philosophic mind has its advantages ; Thomson imagines friends , Attuned to happy unison of soul - To whose exulting eye a fairer world , Of which the vulgar ...
... minds / As on our smiling eyes his servant - sun " ( ll . 340-341 ) . Yet the philosophic mind has its advantages ; Thomson imagines friends , Attuned to happy unison of soul - To whose exulting eye a fairer world , Of which the vulgar ...
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... mind is " vague " - imprecise in some respects because involved in the search for beauty , analogous to the bee through the Latinate sense of the adjective . In describing the musician's mind as a bee , Smart seems hardly to create a ...
... mind is " vague " - imprecise in some respects because involved in the search for beauty , analogous to the bee through the Latinate sense of the adjective . In describing the musician's mind as a bee , Smart seems hardly to create 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