Personification in Eighteenth-century English PoetryOctagon Books, 1968 - 175 pages |
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... picturesque . " But he asks if all poetry should be picturesque , and finds that it should not , for to the right imitation of nature , shade is necessary 36 ABSTRACTION AS " FICTION OF THE MIND "
... picturesque . " But he asks if all poetry should be picturesque , and finds that it should not , for to the right imitation of nature , shade is necessary 36 ABSTRACTION AS " FICTION OF THE MIND "
Page 91
... picturesque landscape fostered by poems such as Mason's English Garden and by the various " tours " of William Gilpin may have confirmed Darwin in the belief that a devotion to picture in poetry would prove accept- able to the public ...
... picturesque landscape fostered by poems such as Mason's English Garden and by the various " tours " of William Gilpin may have confirmed Darwin in the belief that a devotion to picture in poetry would prove accept- able to the public ...
Page 116
... picturesque detail assumes a more positive function in satiric alle- gory than it is able to assume in nonsatiric modes of allegorical presentation . When the eighteenth - century poet sets out seriously to present the reader with a ...
... picturesque detail assumes a more positive function in satiric alle- gory than it is able to assume in nonsatiric modes of allegorical presentation . When the eighteenth - century poet sets out seriously to present the reader with a ...
Contents
Part | 3 |
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