 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...  Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery - Page xxby John Clare - 1820 - 222 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Literature - 1909 - 498 pages
...excepting the nocturnal Reverie of Lady Winchelsea, and a passage or two in the Windsor Forest of Pope, the poetry of the period intervening between the publication of the Paradise Lost and the Seasons does not contain a single new image of external nature ; and scarcely presents a familiar one from... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1920 - 388 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 of the " Paradise Lost" and the "Seasons" does not contain a single new image of external nature; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 508 pages
..."declared he had no taste of" Chaucer. 178:30-31. Wordsworth said that, with two slight exceptions, "the poetry of the period intervening between the...publication of the 'Paradise Lost' and the 'Seasons' does not contain a single new image of external nature; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which... | |
 | David Bromwich - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 320 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 of the Paradise Lost and the Seasons does not contain a single new image of external nature; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which... | |
 | Leslie Moore - Poetry - 1990 - 256 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 of the Paradise Lost and the Seasons does not contain a single new image of external nature; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...write in verse, Thomson pledged himself to treat his subject as became a Poet. Now it is remarkable that, excepting a passage or two in the Windsor Forest...and some delightful pictures in the Poems of Lady Winchilsea, the Poetry of the period intervening between the publication of the Paradise Lost and the... | |
 | Geoffrey Summerfield, Hugh Haughton, Adam Phillips - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 348 pages
...poetic justice, Taylor is able, in praising Clare's novelty and originality, to quote Wordsworth : ' the Poetry of the period intervening between the publication of the Paradise Lost, and the Seasons, does not contain a single new image of external nature'. It is not that Clare sees himself in competition... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Poetry - 2000 - 788 pages
...Thomson pledged himself to treat his subject as became a Poet. Now it is remarkable that, excerpting a passage or two in the Windsor Forest of Pope, and...the publication of the Paradise Lost and the Seasons does not contain a single new image of external nature; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which... | |
 | 376 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 of the " Paradise Lost" and the "Seasons" does not contain a single new image of external nature; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which... | |
 | W J B Owen - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 349 pages
...excepting the nocturnal Reverie of Lady Winchilsea, and a passage or two from the Windsor Forest of Pope, the poetry of the period intervening between the publication of the Paradise Lost and the Seasons does not contain a single new image of external nature; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which... | |
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