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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chapin, Chester F., author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1954]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-88796-5

OCLC:

1100452964