TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chapin,Chester F.
TI  - Personification in Eighteenth-Century English Poetry
SN  - 9780231922883
PY  - 1954///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/chap92288
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