The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-century PoetsHarvard University Press, 1967 - 237 pages |
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Page 35
... tion is undoubtedly real ; its intensity corresponds to that percepti- ble in many other portions of The Seasons . It derives from that vision of nature which dominates the entire poem : nature as passive , receptive , divinely ordered ...
... tion is undoubtedly real ; its intensity corresponds to that percepti- ble in many other portions of The Seasons . It derives from that vision of nature which dominates the entire poem : nature as passive , receptive , divinely ordered ...
Page 83
... tion.26 Yet close examination of the poet's visual presentations , par- ticularly of the personifications which are his most characteristic rhetorical and structural device , reveals a singular lack of specificity in his typical imagery ...
... tion.26 Yet close examination of the poet's visual presentations , par- ticularly of the personifications which are his most characteristic rhetorical and structural device , reveals a singular lack of specificity in his typical imagery ...
Page 110
... tion . There is , to be sure , no necessary opposition between " the Good " and " the Great " ; to assert the inevitability of such an opposi- tion would ordinarily be a satirist's device . In this case , where no purpose of social ...
... tion . There is , to be sure , no necessary opposition between " the Good " and " the Great " ; to assert the inevitability of such an opposi- tion would ordinarily be a satirist's device . In this case , where no purpose of social ...
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