 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...  Points at Issue and Some Other Points - Page 126by Henry Augustin Beers - 1904 - 273 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1889 - 634 pages
...'excepting the Nocturnal Rei-erie of Lady Winchilsea, and a passage or two in the Windsor Forest of Pope, the poetry of the period intervening between the publication...the Paradise Lost and the Seasons does not contain i single new image of external nature.' This remark, although rather acute than exact, since the poet... | |
 | William Angus Knight - 1889 - 394 pages
...excepting the Nocturnal Reverie of Lady Winchilsea, and a passage or two in the Windsor Forest oi Pope, the poetry of the period intervening between the publication of the Paradise Lost and the Seasons does hot contain a single new image of external nature; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 480 pages
...excepting the Koc; nfH11 I Reverie of Lady Winchelsea, and a passage or two in the Windsor Forest of Pope, the period intervening between the publication of...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1892 - 214 pages
...nocturnal 'Reverie ' of 15 Lady Winchilsea, and a passage or two in the 'Windsor Forest,' of Pope, the poetry of the period intervening between the publication...not contain a single new image of external Nature; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which it 20 can be inferred that the eye of the Poet had... | |
 | Charles John Abbey - 1892 - 460 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.3 The name... | |
 | Hugh Walker - 1893 - 274 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...not contain a single new image of external nature." It would be dangerous to affirm the literal truth of this criticism. Thomson's countryman, Ramsay,... | |
 | George Campbell Macaulay - 1908 - 280 pages
...the Windsor Forest of Pope, i the poetry of the period intervening between the v,i / publication of Paradise Lost and The 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... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1909 - 324 pages
...the exception of this poem and Pope's "Windsor Forest," the poetry of the period intervening between "Paradise Lost" and "The Seasons" does not contain a single new image of external Nature, and though the statement is hardly accurate, as it leaves Gay entirely out of account, it must be admitted... | |
 | Clara Helen Whitmore - 1910 - 336 pages
...two in the Windsor Forest of Pope, the poetry of the period intervening between the publication of Paradise Lost and The 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... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1910 - 322 pages
...the exception of this poem and Pope's "Windsor Forest," the poetry of the period intervening between "Paradise Lost" and "The Seasons" does not contain a single new image of external Nature, and though the statement is hardly accurate, as it leaves Gay entirely out of account, it rmist be... | |
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