Personification in Eighteenth-century English PoetryKing's Crown Press, Columbia University, 1955 - 175 pages Studies 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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... true also of the vividly pictorialized abstractions which appear in the odes of William Collins . The odes of Collins , taken as a whole , represent the most thoroughgoing attempt in eighteenth - century poetry at the evocation of ...
... true also of the vividly pictorialized abstractions which appear in the odes of William Collins . The odes of Collins , taken as a whole , represent the most thoroughgoing attempt in eighteenth - century poetry at the evocation of ...
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... True poetry , therefore , is represented as the child of Heaven and Fancy : The Band [ i.e. , the " magic girdle " representing true poetry ] . .. Was wove on that creating Day When He , who call'd with Thought to Birth Yon tented ...
... True poetry , therefore , is represented as the child of Heaven and Fancy : The Band [ i.e. , the " magic girdle " representing true poetry ] . .. Was wove on that creating Day When He , who call'd with Thought to Birth Yon tented ...
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... poetry with a particular mode of expression . Darwin and his contemporaries mistook the " ornaments " of poetry for its substance . Words- worth saw this clearly enough . One of the principal aims of the 1800 preface is to show that true ...
... poetry with a particular mode of expression . Darwin and his contemporaries mistook the " ornaments " of poetry for its substance . Words- worth saw this clearly enough . One of the principal aims of the 1800 preface is to show that true ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION I | 1 |
THE PERSONIFIED ABSTRACTION AS A FICTION | 31 |
THE PERSONIFIED ABSTRACTION AS AN OBJECT | 52 |
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A. B. Grosart Addison allegorical allegorical figures ancients Anna Seward appear attitude beautiful Botanic Garden Caliban century Collins Collins's concerning concrete force contemporary Darwin Dennis distinct Donald Davie Dulness Dunciad E. R. Wasserman effect eighteenth eighteenth-cen eighteenth-century personification eighteenth-century poets eighteenth-century reader eighteenth-century verse Elegy element emotion emphasizes English Poetry epic Erasmus Darwin Essay expression F. R. Leavis faculty fairy fancy feeling fiction genius Gray Gray's human Ibid ideas imagery imagination-fancy Inherent Values instance John Aikin Joseph Warton language lines London lyric M. H. Abrams metaphor mid-century Milton mind moral nature neoclassic objects odes Ogilvie Oxford painting particular passage personifica personification personified abstraction philosophical pictorial picture picturesque pleasure PMLA poem poet's poetic imagination Pope's praeternatural Prodicus prose prosopopoeia pure poetry Rhetoric satire says sense Shakespeare sublime Taste theory Thomas Warton thought tion tradition true poetry truth virtues visual words Wordsworth writing