The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-century PoetsHarvard University Press, 1967 - 237 pages |
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Page 18
... winter's confinement . The pattern Thomson outlines is clear . Man " Winds [ Wind : " To regulate in action ... winter . The passivity of earth suggested at the outset in such phrases as " howling hill " and " ravaged vale , " when earth ...
... winter's confinement . The pattern Thomson outlines is clear . Man " Winds [ Wind : " To regulate in action ... winter . The passivity of earth suggested at the outset in such phrases as " howling hill " and " ravaged vale , " when earth ...
Page 40
... winter storm , " " Tis brightness all . " The alternation of darkness and brightness has the importance in " Winter " of the pattern of silence and sound in " Spring . " When the sun shines on a landscape cleansed by rainfall , it ...
... winter storm , " " Tis brightness all . " The alternation of darkness and brightness has the importance in " Winter " of the pattern of silence and sound in " Spring . " When the sun shines on a landscape cleansed by rainfall , it ...
Page 198
... winter , and with the resulting paradoxes : birds forsake their " natural " habitat for traveled roads ; the " nauseous dole " voided by the travelers is " sweet to them " ; winter creates a " splendid blank , / O'erwhelming all dis ...
... winter , and with the resulting paradoxes : birds forsake their " natural " habitat for traveled roads ; the " nauseous dole " voided by the travelers is " sweet to them " ; winter creates a " splendid blank , / O'erwhelming all dis ...
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