Personification in Eighteenth-century English Poetry

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