Nature in Eighteenth Century PoetryUniversity of Allahabad, 1964 - 117 pages |
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... criticism : " They neither copied Nature nor life . ' Lastly the atmosphere which they tried to create was inevit ... critics with sterner common - sense and became ects of literary ridicule . With these antecedents the path of the ...
... criticism : " They neither copied Nature nor life . ' Lastly the atmosphere which they tried to create was inevit ... critics with sterner common - sense and became ects of literary ridicule . With these antecedents the path of the ...
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... critics in a wooden frame of mind , weighed , balanced , rejected and condemned . Before judging the poems on their own merits , their words on their own connotation , their images on their own suggestion , the critics first thought of ...
... critics in a wooden frame of mind , weighed , balanced , rejected and condemned . Before judging the poems on their own merits , their words on their own connotation , their images on their own suggestion , the critics first thought of ...
Page 109
... critics specially Richard Steele , Samuel Johnson , Thomas Warton to formu- late certain principles to act as beacon lights to younger poets , yet Nature did not escape their critical gaze . Midst their varied critical musings , we find ...
... critics specially Richard Steele , Samuel Johnson , Thomas Warton to formu- late certain principles to act as beacon lights to younger poets , yet Nature did not escape their critical gaze . Midst their varied critical musings , we find ...
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appear aspects of Nature atmosphere Autumn background birds blooming breathing bright Century Nature Poetry charms classical Claudian clouds convention couplet created critics David Nicol delight diction divinity Dodsley Eighteenth Century Nature Eighteenth Century poets emotion express fading Fancy favour feeling flocks flowers forests fresh genius Gilfillan green groves harmony Hildebrand Jacob hills human Ibid images imagination imitation inspiration James Thomson Joseph Warton Kensington Garden KHATTRY landscape landscape art Lansdown lastly literary literature living metaphor midst mind models Monody mood moral mountain murmurs Muse Nature's beauties Nineteenth Century o'er observation painting passion pastoral peace pleasure poems poet's poetic Pope realised Reason reflected rills romantic rose rural scenes sense shade Shenstone sincere sing smile solitude song spring stream sublime suggestions things Thomas Denton Thomas Warton Thomson thought thro tion trees verse vivid wave William Lisle Bowles William Shenstone wind wood writing