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Personification in Eighteenth-Century English Poetry / Chester F. Chapin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1954]Copyright date: ©1954Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9780231922883
  • 9780231887960
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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.

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