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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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1954] ©1954 |
| Year of Publication: | 1954 |
| Language: | English |
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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