The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-century PoetsHarvard University Press, 1967 - 237 pages |
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... precisely , comprised the " visual " in eighteenth - century poetry ; how vision was expressed and used ; how adequate the poetic resources of the period were to its poetic aims . II ** JAMES THOMSON : The Dominance of Meaning THE I 2 ...
... precisely , comprised the " visual " in eighteenth - century poetry ; how vision was expressed and used ; how adequate the poetic resources of the period were to its poetic aims . II ** JAMES THOMSON : The Dominance of Meaning THE I 2 ...
Page 83
... precisely visual . A. S. P. Woodhouse , in his final essay on Collins , points out that the success and the originality of Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegoric Subjects " depend on Collins's development - one might almost say , on ...
... precisely visual . A. S. P. Woodhouse , in his final essay on Collins , points out that the success and the originality of Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegoric Subjects " depend on Collins's development - one might almost say , on ...
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... precisely the special sources of his poetic power . With less bias against the eighteenth century than our grandfathers had , we can now discern the extent to which the Song to David ( as well as Smart's extensive other work ) ...
... precisely the special sources of his poetic power . With less bias against the eighteenth century than our grandfathers had , we can now discern the extent to which the Song to David ( as well as Smart's extensive other work ) ...
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