 Seasons does not contain a single new image of external nature ; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which it can be inferred that the eye of the Poet had been steadily fixed upon his object, much less that his feelings had urged him to work upon...  Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery - Page xxby John Clare - 1820 - 222 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1871 - 622 pages
...write in verse, Thomson pledged himself to treat his subject as became a poet. Now it is remarkable that, excepting a passage or two in the " Windsor...and some delightful pictures in the " Poems of Lady Wlnchelsea," the poetry of the period intervening between the publication of the " Paradise Lost "... | |
 | Theology - 1871 - 832 pages
...powerful feelings " ; and in a remarkable passage in his criticism of earlier poets, he says, — " The poetry of the period intervening between the publication of the ' Paradise Lost ' and the ' Seasons ' does not contain a single new image of external nature, and scarcely presents a familiar one from... | |
 | 1872 - 720 pages
...Nevertheless, Wordsworth is not far wrong in saying that, with one or two insignificant exceptions, "the poetry of the period intervening between the publication of the Paradise Lost and the Seasons—that is to say, from 1667 to 1728—does not contain a single new image of external nature;... | |
 | 1873 - 892 pages
..." the most obvious and important phenomena'' of nature which characterizes the poetical literature of the period intervening between the publication of the " Paradise Lost " and the " Seasons." It is to be feared that his opinion is, to a large extent, justified by the facts of the case. A very... | |
 | English literature - 1873 - 736 pages
..." the most obvious and important phenomena " of nature which characterizes the poetical literature of the period intervening between the publication of the " Paradise Lost " and the " Seasons." It is to be feared that his opinion is, to a large extent, justified by the facts of the case. A very... | |
 | Science - 1874 - 800 pages
..." the most obvious and important phenomena " of Nature which characterizes the poetical literature of the period intervening between the publication of the " Paradise Lost " and the " Seasons." It is to be feared that his opinion is, to a large extent, justified by the facts of the case. A very... | |
 | John Dennis - English literature - 1876 - 466 pages
...Nevertheless, Wordsworth is not far wrong in saying that, with one or two insignificant exceptions, " the poetry of the period intervening between the publication of the ' Paradise Lost' and the ' Seasons' — that is to say, from 1667 to 1728 — does not contain a single new image iif external nature,... | |
 | Charles John Abbey - Church and state - 1878 - 606 pages
...Reverie ' that, with the exception of a passage or two in the ' Windsor Forest' of Pope, it is the only poetry of the period intervening between the publication of the ' Paradise Lost' and the 'Seasons,' in which external phenomena were contemplated with any originality or genuine imagination. 6 The name... | |
 | Charles Dunham Deshler - English poetry - 1879 - 334 pages
...excepting the nocturnal reverie of Lady Winchelsea, and a passage or two in the ' Windsor Forest ' of Pope, the poetry of the period intervening between the publication of the ' Paradise Lost ' and the ' Seasons ' [of Thomson, which Wordsworth elsewhere pronounces a work of inspiration] does not contain a single... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 636 pages
...'excepting the Nocturnal Reverie of Lady Winchilsea, and a passage or two in the Windsor Forest of Pope, the poetry of the period intervening between the publication of the Paradise Lost and the Seasons does not contain a single new image of external nature.' This remark, although rather acute than exact,... | |
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