The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-century PoetsHarvard University Press, 1967 - 237 pages |
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... provides the panorama of heaven and earth which leads man to awareness of his Creator , reason's eye is capable of up - tracing , from the dreary void , The chain of causes and effects to Him , The world - producing Essence , who alone ...
... provides the panorama of heaven and earth which leads man to awareness of his Creator , reason's eye is capable of up - tracing , from the dreary void , The chain of causes and effects to Him , The world - producing Essence , who alone ...
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Patricia Meyer Spacks. Reason , like imagination , provides a capacity analogous to sight . The philosophic man is " intent to gaze / Creation through " ( " Sum- mer , " ll . 1784-1785 ) ; the " inward view " ( 1. 1788 ) of Philosophy ...
Patricia Meyer Spacks. Reason , like imagination , provides a capacity analogous to sight . The philosophic man is " intent to gaze / Creation through " ( " Sum- mer , " ll . 1784-1785 ) ; the " inward view " ( 1. 1788 ) of Philosophy ...
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... provide a principle of growth and control for so undisciplined a form as the eighteenth - century ode . In Collins's odes , Wylie ... provides images which are the product of imagination and tradition , and which are 78 The Poetry of Vision.
... provide a principle of growth and control for so undisciplined a form as the eighteenth - century ode . In Collins's odes , Wylie ... provides images which are the product of imagination and tradition , and which are 78 The Poetry of Vision.
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