The Rise of Romanticism: Essential TextsCarcanet New Press, 1978 - 363 pages |
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Page 10
... perhaps not even in modern times , poets were concerned to present in their verse an image of the mind in the processes of cognition , even encom- passing within a poem changes in response to new knowledge in the poem . A brief ...
... perhaps not even in modern times , poets were concerned to present in their verse an image of the mind in the processes of cognition , even encom- passing within a poem changes in response to new knowledge in the poem . A brief ...
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... Perhaps the most effective instance of these kinds of metaphors is Gray's comparison of the village dead in the local parish with the gems ( of course subtly redolent of Ezekiel ) of the deepest parts of the undiscovered ocean and the ...
... Perhaps the most effective instance of these kinds of metaphors is Gray's comparison of the village dead in the local parish with the gems ( of course subtly redolent of Ezekiel ) of the deepest parts of the undiscovered ocean and the ...
Page 352
... Perhaps the most significant moment in Wordsworth's Excursion occurs in Book II ( see pp . 353-355 ) . Cynical since his disappointment in the French Revolution , the lapsed minister known as ' the Solitary ' tells of his search for a ...
... Perhaps the most significant moment in Wordsworth's Excursion occurs in Book II ( see pp . 353-355 ) . Cynical since his disappointment in the French Revolution , the lapsed minister known as ' the Solitary ' tells of his search for a ...
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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