The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-century PoetsHarvard University Press, 1967 - 237 pages |
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... object magnified by the microscope . " As early as 1739 , a rhetoric intended for school boys defines the figure of " vision " as " a Repre- sentation of Things distant and past as if seen and present , " and advises its readers to see ...
... object magnified by the microscope . " As early as 1739 , a rhetoric intended for school boys defines the figure of " vision " as " a Repre- sentation of Things distant and past as if seen and present , " and advises its readers to see ...
Page 122
... object which inspires it . Such an object " must be set before us in such a light as is most proper to give us a clear and full impression of it ; it must be described with strength , with conciseness , and simplicity . This depends ...
... object which inspires it . Such an object " must be set before us in such a light as is most proper to give us a clear and full impression of it ; it must be described with strength , with conciseness , and simplicity . This depends ...
Page 189
... object seen before . ( ll . 119-121 ) The fancy , the human creative power which produces art , is limited , Locke had explained , to forming new combinations or interpretations of objects ( or parts of objects ) previously perceived ...
... object seen before . ( ll . 119-121 ) The fancy , the human creative power which produces art , is limited , Locke had explained , to forming new combinations or interpretations of objects ( or parts of objects ) previously perceived ...
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