Nature in Eighteenth Century PoetryUniversity of Allahabad, 1964 - 117 pages |
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... picture of quiet repose where ' flowery beds ' , ' breathing poppies ' and ' sleep - soothing groves ' are in abundance recall to mind many a Claudian scene where ' glittering streamlets play ' through the ' sunny glade ' . The ...
... picture of quiet repose where ' flowery beds ' , ' breathing poppies ' and ' sleep - soothing groves ' are in abundance recall to mind many a Claudian scene where ' glittering streamlets play ' through the ' sunny glade ' . The ...
Page 64
... picture of physical graces . 4 " The tongue to all the world had then confess'd That she was sheener than the pheasant's wing , And when she rais'd her voice , no lark so soot could sing " . It would really be a dull voice , if the poet ...
... picture of physical graces . 4 " The tongue to all the world had then confess'd That she was sheener than the pheasant's wing , And when she rais'd her voice , no lark so soot could sing " . It would really be a dull voice , if the poet ...
Page 65
... picture extremely suggestive of shy agility . No picture could be more telling than the following , of pride subdued : 2 " Hurl'd furious down , Abash'd dismay'd ; Like a chas'd lion to the savage shade Of his own forests , fell ...
... picture extremely suggestive of shy agility . No picture could be more telling than the following , of pride subdued : 2 " Hurl'd furious down , Abash'd dismay'd ; Like a chas'd lion to the savage shade Of his own forests , fell ...
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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