The Rise of Romanticism: Essential TextsCarcanet New Press, 1978 - 363 pages |
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Page 49
... Imitation of Nature , by a pathetick and numerous Speech . Let us explain it . As Poetry is an Art , it must be an Imitation of Nature . That the Instrument with which it makes its Imitation , is Speech , need not be disputed . That ...
... Imitation of Nature , by a pathetick and numerous Speech . Let us explain it . As Poetry is an Art , it must be an Imitation of Nature . That the Instrument with which it makes its Imitation , is Speech , need not be disputed . That ...
Page 161
... imitation : whatever the human mind is able to conceive , it is the province of poetry to imitate ; things , places , appearances natural and artificial , actions , passions , manners and customs : and since the human intellect is ...
... imitation : whatever the human mind is able to conceive , it is the province of poetry to imitate ; things , places , appearances natural and artificial , actions , passions , manners and customs : and since the human intellect is ...
Page 204
... imitation . It is indeed an imitation so far as it describes the manners and passions of men which their words can express ; where animi motus effert interprete lingua . * There is strictly imitation ; and all merely dramatic poetry is ...
... imitation . It is indeed an imitation so far as it describes the manners and passions of men which their words can express ; where animi motus effert interprete lingua . * There is strictly imitation ; and all merely dramatic poetry is ...
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abstract admiration Aeneid ancient appear association beauty Berkeley Biographia Literaria Blake Blake's body Book of Urizen cause character classical colour composition concept connexion consider distance distinct duration Earth effect eighteenth century epistemology Essay eternal example existence extension Ezekiel Faery Queen fancy feeling finite genius Gothic Hartley hath heaven Hebrew Homer human imitation impressions infinite Joseph Warton kind language Lowth manner Maurice Morgann medullary substance memory mind motion mountains nature never Night Thoughts o'er objects obscure observed oriental original Ossian particular passions perceived perception perhaps philosophers pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's principle prophet proposition reader reason relation Robert Lowth Romantic Romanticism sacred seems sensation sense sensible sentiments sight simple ideas Smart soul space spirit sublime suggests suppose Theocritus theory things Thomas Warton thought Tintern Abbey verse vibrations visible Warton words Wordsworth's writing Young