The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-century PoetsHarvard University Press, 1967 - 237 pages |
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Page 81
... opening line of this section ( 1. 104 ) , “ Ah , luckless swain , o'er all unblest indeed ! " , sets the tone for the rest of the passage . The word unblest has a curious force in Collins ( as in the line from the " Poetical Character ...
... opening line of this section ( 1. 104 ) , “ Ah , luckless swain , o'er all unblest indeed ! " , sets the tone for the rest of the passage . The word unblest has a curious force in Collins ( as in the line from the " Poetical Character ...
Page 96
... opening quatrain is richest in conventional diction , which functions here , as so often in eighteenth - century poetry , to insist upon the essential tie between man and nature . Mornings , in the universe here invoked , are " smileing ...
... opening quatrain is richest in conventional diction , which functions here , as so often in eighteenth - century poetry , to insist upon the essential tie between man and nature . Mornings , in the universe here invoked , are " smileing ...
Page 113
... opening of " L'Al- legro , " the beginning of Gray's ode suggests , through the vigor of its personifications , a much more intense interest in conflict . Those ordered away include Ignorance , with looks profound , And dreaming Sloth ...
... opening of " L'Al- legro , " the beginning of Gray's ode suggests , through the vigor of its personifications , a much more intense interest in conflict . Those ordered away include Ignorance , with looks profound , And dreaming Sloth ...
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