The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-century PoetsHarvard University Press, 1967 - 237 pages |
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... seems strangely isolated from what he has to say , seems not a concern for the best way to convey emotion or meaning so much as for the moral posture appropriate to a man of his convictions . In the second passage , the moral posture ...
... seems strangely isolated from what he has to say , seems not a concern for the best way to convey emotion or meaning so much as for the moral posture appropriate to a man of his convictions . In the second passage , the moral posture ...
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... seems anything but straight- forward , and its contrived complexity reflects no corresponding complexity of thought . One striking fact about the relatively weak moralistic sections of The Task is that they are so radically different in ...
... seems anything but straight- forward , and its contrived complexity reflects no corresponding complexity of thought . One striking fact about the relatively weak moralistic sections of The Task is that they are so radically different in ...
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Patricia Meyer Spacks. which seem strongest to twentieth - century sensibility and those which seem relatively weak . One ... seems conspicuously lacking . Thomson , for example , praises great men , operating in an established mode : he ...
Patricia Meyer Spacks. which seem strongest to twentieth - century sensibility and those which seem relatively weak . One ... seems conspicuously lacking . Thomson , for example , praises great men , operating in an established mode : he ...
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