The Rise of Romanticism: Essential TextsCarcanet New Press, 1978 - 363 pages |
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Page 97
... Poet seems to get the better of Nature ; he takes , indeed , the Landskip after her , but gives it more vigorous Touches , heightens its Beauty , and so enlivens the whole Piece , that the Images , which flow from the Objects themselves ...
... Poet seems to get the better of Nature ; he takes , indeed , the Landskip after her , but gives it more vigorous Touches , heightens its Beauty , and so enlivens the whole Piece , that the Images , which flow from the Objects themselves ...
Page 186
... poets following the perceptions of the preceding pages , notably Collins's Ode on the Poetical Character ( 1746 ) and Gray's The Progress of Poesy ( see pp . 191- 194 ) . The sixteenth - century , ' primitive ' poet of Collins's opening ...
... poets following the perceptions of the preceding pages , notably Collins's Ode on the Poetical Character ( 1746 ) and Gray's The Progress of Poesy ( see pp . 191- 194 ) . The sixteenth - century , ' primitive ' poet of Collins's opening ...
Page 310
... poet delivering his own method , and the reason of it . It arose out of the order of his subject . And would you desire a better reason for his choice ? Yes ; you will say , a poet's method is not that of his subject . I grant you , as ...
... poet delivering his own method , and the reason of it . It arose out of the order of his subject . And would you desire a better reason for his choice ? Yes ; you will say , a poet's method is not that of his subject . I grant you , as ...
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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