Personification in Eighteenth-century English PoetryStudies 18th century personification by looking at the personification abstraction rather than with personification of material objects. Also sets the abstraction against a background of poetic theory and practice relevant to 18th century verse in its larger aspects. |
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Contents
Part | 3 |
THE PERSONIFIED ABSTRACTION AS A FICTION | 31 |
THE PERSONIFIED ABSTRACTION AS AN OBJECT | 52 |
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| Title | Personification in Eighteenth-century English Poetry |
| Author | Chester Fisher Chapin |
| Publisher | King's Crown Press, Columbia University, 1955 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 7 Sep 2007 |
| ISBN | 0231922884, 9780231922883 |
| Length | 175 pages |
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