The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-century PoetsHarvard University Press, 1967 - 237 pages |
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Page 5
... reader . But about the nature of the good poetic image there were divergent views . Many critics assumed that the mark of the good image is its precise , accurate , vivid rendering of actuality . They were pleased to find the accuracy ...
... reader . But about the nature of the good poetic image there were divergent views . Many critics assumed that the mark of the good image is its precise , accurate , vivid rendering of actuality . They were pleased to find the accuracy ...
Page 68
... readers into spectators .. This excellence [ is ] of all others the most essen- tial in poetry . " . " 8 The difference ... reader's mind and that it would be less powerful if it did so , 11 Goldsmith could retort , in the Monthly Review ...
... readers into spectators .. This excellence [ is ] of all others the most essen- tial in poetry . " . " 8 The difference ... reader's mind and that it would be less powerful if it did so , 11 Goldsmith could retort , in the Monthly Review ...
Page 139
... reader spied " ( st . lvii ) . Or he may move in a single stanza from the general idea of sugar cane and cocoanut milk detaining the western pilgrim to a sharp , impressionistic vision Where rain in clasping boughs inclos'd , And vines ...
... reader spied " ( st . lvii ) . Or he may move in a single stanza from the general idea of sugar cane and cocoanut milk detaining the western pilgrim to a sharp , impressionistic vision Where rain in clasping boughs inclos'd , And vines ...
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