The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-century PoetsHarvard University Press, 1967 - 237 pages |
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... perceives and de- scribes a tree and the kind which perceives and describes a centaur , or a figure of Revenge , are at opposite ends of a single continuum : the difference between them is one of degree of imaginative activity -more ...
... perceives and de- scribes a tree and the kind which perceives and describes a centaur , or a figure of Revenge , are at opposite ends of a single continuum : the difference between them is one of degree of imaginative activity -more ...
Page 34
... perceiving the same phenomena and insists that the poet can unite different ways of perceiving through his awareness of universal pattern . Of course to produce a lengthy description in blank verse of the - - origins of rivers would be ...
... perceiving the same phenomena and insists that the poet can unite different ways of perceiving through his awareness of universal pattern . Of course to produce a lengthy description in blank verse of the - - origins of rivers would be ...
Page 39
... perceives as he " sees " the world . His dependence on varied sorts of language , used often in conjunction with one ... perceiving ; the juxtaposition of varied dictions insists that many different modes of perception must merge to ...
... perceives as he " sees " the world . His dependence on varied sorts of language , used often in conjunction with one ... perceiving ; the juxtaposition of varied dictions insists that many different modes of perception must merge to ...
Contents
An Introduction to I | 1 |
The Dominance of Meaning | 13 |
The Retreat from Vision | 46 |
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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