The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-century PoetsHarvard University Press, 1967 - 237 pages |
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Page 75
... perceptions this emotion makes possible may be dangerous ; they are by definition frightening . But perception is for Collins self - justifying , worth the taking of risks . The heightening of perception involved in concentration on the ...
... perceptions this emotion makes possible may be dangerous ; they are by definition frightening . But perception is for Collins self - justifying , worth the taking of risks . The heightening of perception involved in concentration on the ...
Page 199
... perception which by the end of the book he will assert to be a product of man's right relationship with God . True perception does not depend on anything so simple as constant assertion of the connections between God and His creation ...
... perception which by the end of the book he will assert to be a product of man's right relationship with God . True perception does not depend on anything so simple as constant assertion of the connections between God and His creation ...
Page 205
... perception of its energy is part of Cowper's direct relation - seeking poetic perception of the imagined scene itself . The force of that perception , expressed through unpretentious but intricately organ- ized language 205 Cowper ...
... perception of its energy is part of Cowper's direct relation - seeking poetic perception of the imagined scene itself . The force of that perception , expressed through unpretentious but intricately organ- ized language 205 Cowper ...
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