Personification in Eighteenth-Century English Poetry /
Chapin, Chester F.
Personification in Eighteenth-Century English Poetry / Chester F. Chapin. - 1 online resource
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One -- I. Addison and the Empirical Theory of Imagination -- II. The Personified Abstraction as a "Fiction of the Mind" -- III. The Personified Abstraction as an "Object of Sight" -- IV. The Values of Allegorical Personification: Collins and Gray -- V. Attitudes Toward Personification in the Late Eighteenth Century: Darwin and Wordsworth -- Part Two -- VI. Personification as a Figure of Rhetoric: Johnson -- VII. The Inherent Values of Eighteenth-Century Personification: Pope -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index
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Studies 18th century personification by looking at the personification abstraction rather than with personification of material objects. Also sets the abstraction against a background of poetic theory and practice relevant to 18th century verse in its larger aspects.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780231922883 9780231887960
10.7312/chap92288 doi
LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.
Personification in Eighteenth-Century English Poetry / Chester F. Chapin. - 1 online resource
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One -- I. Addison and the Empirical Theory of Imagination -- II. The Personified Abstraction as a "Fiction of the Mind" -- III. The Personified Abstraction as an "Object of Sight" -- IV. The Values of Allegorical Personification: Collins and Gray -- V. Attitudes Toward Personification in the Late Eighteenth Century: Darwin and Wordsworth -- Part Two -- VI. Personification as a Figure of Rhetoric: Johnson -- VII. The Inherent Values of Eighteenth-Century Personification: Pope -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Studies 18th century personification by looking at the personification abstraction rather than with personification of material objects. Also sets the abstraction against a background of poetic theory and practice relevant to 18th century verse in its larger aspects.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780231922883 9780231887960
10.7312/chap92288 doi
LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.