The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-century PoetsHarvard University Press, 1967 - 237 pages |
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... pattern Thomson outlines is clear . Man " Winds [ Wind : " To regulate in action " ( Johnson ) ] the whole work , " controls the agricultural activity which fulfills spring's fertility , but master , sower and lusty steers also ...
... pattern Thomson outlines is clear . Man " Winds [ Wind : " To regulate in action " ( Johnson ) ] the whole work , " controls the agricultural activity which fulfills spring's fertility , but master , sower and lusty steers also ...
Page 24
... pattern of order , as they advance , wheel , " drive the dusky wave along the mead , " and leave behind them haycocks " In order gay . " But the visual pattern , like the aural one suggested by " the blended voice / Of happy labour ...
... pattern of order , as they advance , wheel , " drive the dusky wave along the mead , " and leave behind them haycocks " In order gay . " But the visual pattern , like the aural one suggested by " the blended voice / Of happy labour ...
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... pattern suddenly varies , as in the sequence concerned with Smart's renunciation of his birth- right ( B1 , 45-53 ) . The " Let " verses here preserve the pattern of man - animal association , with emphasis , as W. H. Bond has pointed ...
... pattern suddenly varies , as in the sequence concerned with Smart's renunciation of his birth- right ( B1 , 45-53 ) . The " Let " verses here preserve the pattern of man - animal association , with emphasis , as W. H. Bond has pointed ...
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