Personification in Eighteenth-Century English Poetry / / Chester F. Chapin.
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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1954] ©1954 |
Year of Publication: | 1954 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Other title: | 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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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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780231887960 9783110442489 |
DOI: | 10.7312/chap92288 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Chester F. Chapin. |