| Author |
Shairp, John Campbell, 1819-1885 |
| Title |
On poetic interpretation of nature
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| Original Publication |
United States: Houghton, Mifflin,1900.
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| Contents |
The sources of poetry -- The poetic feeling awakened by the world of nature -- Poetic and scientific wonder -- Will science put out poetry? -- How far science may modify poetry -- The mystical side of nature -- Primeval imagination working on nature: Language and mythology -- Some of the ways in which poets deal with nature -- Nature in Hebrew poetry, and in Homer -- Nature in Lucretius and Virgil -- Nature in Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton -- Return to nature begun by Allan Ramsay and Thomson -- Nature in Collins, Gray, Goldsmith, Cowper, and Burns -- Wordsworth as an interpreter of nature.
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| Credits |
Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
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| Language |
English |
| LoC Class |
PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections
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| Subject |
Poetry -- History and criticism
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| Subject |
Nature in literature
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| Category |
Text |
| EBook-No. |
68066 |
| Release Date |
May 13, 2022 |
| Copyright Status |
Public domain in the USA. |
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