English Poetic Diction from Chaucer to Wordsworth

adjectives Aeneid airy appears Arthos balmy briny Chapman clouds coronation figure craggy Creech's critics crown'd describe dewy Diction of Poetry Dryden Dryden's Aeneid Dryden's translation Dryden's version Dryden's Virgil DuBartas earlier Eclogues edition eighteenth century English poetic diction English poetry epic diction epic simile epithet Essay example Faerie Queene Fenton finny fleecy flood flowers Georgics gold headlong hoary Homer Ibid Iliad influence items of poetic John Joseph Warton language later poets Latin lines liquid Lucan Lucretius massy matter of poetic mean Milton Miscellany Natural Description noun Odyssey Ogilby Ogilby's once Ovid Paradise Lost parallels passage pastoral periphrases Pharsalia poem poetic diction Pope Pope's Iliad predecessors quoted remarks revisions rhyme words sable Sandys Sandys's scaly shades Shakespeare Silius Italicus Spenser spongy Statius steepy style sylvan Sylvester Sylvester's Theocritus Thomson Tillotson tion twice Twickenham verb verdant verse Virgil vocal watery welkin words and phrases Wordsworth writes wrote