The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-century PoetsHarvard University Press, 1967 - 237 pages |
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Page 53
... possible truth or fiction of the vision , an issue suggested by Milton's passage , interests Thomson not at all . The later poet adds one new visual detail : his " Flood " ( corresponding to Milton's " Fountain " ) is " silver'd " by ...
... possible truth or fiction of the vision , an issue suggested by Milton's passage , interests Thomson not at all . The later poet adds one new visual detail : his " Flood " ( corresponding to Milton's " Fountain " ) is " silver'd " by ...
Page 64
... possible occupations open to those who repent their indolence ; some , he says , will go to the muses , " who raise the Heart " ( II , lx ) . And the view of the Bard is that of Thomson himself . It contrasts at all points with that of ...
... possible occupations open to those who repent their indolence ; some , he says , will go to the muses , " who raise the Heart " ( II , lx ) . And the view of the Bard is that of Thomson himself . It contrasts at all points with that of ...
Page 184
... possible true and consistent virtue in action . “ Here virtue thrives as in her proper soil " ( 1. 600 ) : repeated uses of nat- ural analogy insist that the patterns of nature are the models to man . Thus civilized virtue is " By ...
... possible true and consistent virtue in action . “ Here virtue thrives as in her proper soil " ( 1. 600 ) : repeated uses of nat- ural analogy insist that the patterns of nature are the models to man . Thus civilized virtue is " By ...
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