Personification in Eighteenth-century English Poetry

achieve Addison allegorical ancients appear associated attitude beautiful become believe called century chapter Collins concerning contemporary critics Darwin describes detail distinct effect eighteenth eighteenth-century element emotion emphasizes employed English Essay existence expression fact faculty fancy feeling fiction figure finds force Garden genius gives Gray human Ibid ideas imagination importance inherent instance interest invention James John Johnson Joseph kind language less lines literary London material means metaphor Milton mind moral nature notes objects odes original Oxford painting particular passage personification personified abstraction persons philosophical pictorial picture pleasure poem poet poet's poetic poetry Pope present reader reality reason regard relation represented Rhetoric satire says sense significance sort sublime Taste theory things Thomas thought tion tradition true truth University verse virtues Warton whole Wordsworth writing York