The Castle of Indolence, and Other PoemsUniversity of Kansas Press, 1961 - 222 pages |
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... imitation invited triviality and small - scale work - the jeu d'esprit , the short descriptive bit , the little exercise in style , with considerable emphasis on the sup- posedly ludicrous or quaint diction . The result might be broad ...
... imitation invited triviality and small - scale work - the jeu d'esprit , the short descriptive bit , the little exercise in style , with considerable emphasis on the sup- posedly ludicrous or quaint diction . The result might be broad ...
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... imitation . To imitate the fictions and sentiments of Spenser can incur no reproach ; for allegory is perhaps one of the most pleasing vehicles of instruction . But I am very far from extending the same respect to his diction or his ...
... imitation . To imitate the fictions and sentiments of Spenser can incur no reproach ; for allegory is perhaps one of the most pleasing vehicles of instruction . But I am very far from extending the same respect to his diction or his ...
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James Thomson Alan Dugald McKillop. It is appropriate that the last significant imitation of Thom- son's Spenserian stanzas ... imitation in companion pieces , The Dreamer of the Castle of Indolence ( the title - poem of a slender volume ...
James Thomson Alan Dugald McKillop. It is appropriate that the last significant imitation of Thom- son's Spenserian stanzas ... imitation in companion pieces , The Dreamer of the Castle of Indolence ( the title - poem of a slender volume ...
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allegorical Archimage Armstrong Arts and Industry Bard Beauty Bliss Bower Brentford Britannia British Canto Castle of Indolence deep delights Descartes dream Dunciad Earth effect eighteenth century elaborate enchanter English Harp Heart Heaven Hill Hughes Hypochondria Idless imitation inspired Introduction Isle James Thomson John John Conduitt John Hughes Knight of Arts landscape Landskips Liberty light lines Lucretius Luxborough Luxury Lycidas Lyttelton Mallet Milton Mind moral Murdoch Muse MUSIDORA Nature Nature's Newtonian nought Numbers o'er panegyric passage Peace philosophic Pleasure poet Poetry pour'd Power praise quoted reference retirement round rural Scene Seasons second edition Shade Shenstone shine Sir Isaac Newton Sleep soft Solitude song Soul sound Spenser Spenserian Spenserian stanzas Spirit stanza Streams sweet thee theme Thom Thomson's poem thou thro Title-page Toil Vale verse Virtue vision ween wild Wind words World Wretch xlviii