The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-century PoetsHarvard University Press, 1967 - 237 pages |
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Page 16
... passage in " Spring " begins , " And see " ; ends , " shuts the scene " ( 1. 47 ) : it is presented as a visual panorama . It opens , characteristically , with a personification : And see where surly Winter passes off Far to the north ...
... passage in " Spring " begins , " And see " ; ends , " shuts the scene " ( 1. 47 ) : it is presented as a visual panorama . It opens , characteristically , with a personification : And see where surly Winter passes off Far to the north ...
Page 41
... passage . Fleecy connects the world of the clouds metaphorically with that of men and of those animals whom Thomson elsewhere calls man's " fleecy care . " And the phrase " fleecy world " suggests that the clouds themselves represent ...
... passage . Fleecy connects the world of the clouds metaphorically with that of men and of those animals whom Thomson elsewhere calls man's " fleecy care . " And the phrase " fleecy world " suggests that the clouds themselves represent ...
Page 44
... passage attempts something closer to a cosmic viewpoint . The narrower view concentrates on appearance rather than meaning ; the various movements of the robin suddenly seem enormously interesting simply as a spectacle in themselves ...
... passage attempts something closer to a cosmic viewpoint . The narrower view concentrates on appearance rather than meaning ; the various movements of the robin suddenly seem enormously interesting simply as a spectacle in themselves ...
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