Poetry, Language, and Politics

A. L. Rowse abstract Alexander Pope androgynous appropriate argues argument attempt believe Biographia Literaria Booth century claim clause Coleridge complex contradiction Cromwell deferred define described discourse of economic discourse of patronage Dorothy edition eighteenth eighteenth-century essay example experience feminine function gender genre Georgic heaven's gate human ideas identity impressions intellect invited John Clare kind landscape language literary text London Lyrical Ballads Lyttelton main verb Mary Astell masculine meaning Milton Milton's sonnet mind modern reader moral narrator narrator's nature notion nouns objects offers paraphrase particular passage pastoral phrase poem poet poetry political practical criticism produce relation represented seems sense sentence sentence-structure Shakespeare Shakespeare's sonnets sonnet 29 specific structure sublime suggest sullen earth syntax thee things Thomas Tickell Thomson thoughts Tintern Abbey tion transcendent understand unity University Press utterance Vane virtue women word Wordsworth writing