Personification in Eighteenth-Century English Poetry

✍ Scribed by Chester F. Chapin

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 188
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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

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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