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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Chapin, Chester F.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1954]; ©1954
• Year of Publication: 1954
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of 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