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 concerned 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 verse Elegy element emotion emphasizes English Poetry epic Erasmus Darwin Essay 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 painting particular passage personifica personification personified abstraction Philosophy pictorial picture picturesque pleasure PMLA poem poet's poetic imagination Pope's praeternatural Prodicus prose prosopopoeia pure poetry rhetoric satire says sense Shakespeare sonification sublime theory Thomas Quayle Thomas Warton thought tion tradition true poetry truth tury Verse virtues visual words Wordsworth writing