Picturesque Landscape and English Romantic PoetryHutchinson Educational, 1970 - 210 pages |
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Page 132
... Scott in these epistles was faced with the problem of what to do with the landscape once he had described it . It holds some signifi- cance for him , he feels toward it a love and tenderness , but how is this to be expressed ? Scott ...
... Scott in these epistles was faced with the problem of what to do with the landscape once he had described it . It holds some signifi- cance for him , he feels toward it a love and tenderness , but how is this to be expressed ? Scott ...
Page 135
... Scott's poetical achievement . By the time of the publication of Rokeby in 1813 , Byron had taken some of the wind out of his sails with the first two cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage . But there were other reasons for his decline ...
... Scott's poetical achievement . By the time of the publication of Rokeby in 1813 , Byron had taken some of the wind out of his sails with the first two cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage . But there were other reasons for his decline ...
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... Scott's approach was singled out by Ruskin , who noticed with approbation that ' as Nature is bright , serene , or gloomy , Scott takes her temper , and paints her as she is ' . In his ' unselfishness and humility ' , wrote Ruskin , ' ...
... Scott's approach was singled out by Ruskin , who noticed with approbation that ' as Nature is bright , serene , or gloomy , Scott takes her temper , and paints her as she is ' . In his ' unselfishness and humility ' , wrote Ruskin , ' ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Picturesque at Work | 21 |
The individual experience Gray and Walpole | 50 |
Copyright | |
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Alps Blake Byron Castle Claude cliffs clouds Coleridge's colours Constable crags delight described Dorothy Wordsworth eighteenth-century Essays external world feeling forms Gilpin Gothic Gray Gray's hills Ibid idea ideal landscape imagination inspiration interest J. M. W. Turner John John Constable Keats Keats's Lake District land Letters light lines Lockhart London look Manfred Mary Moorman mind mountains nature Notebooks o'er objects Observations Oxford painter Percy Bysshe Shelley picture Picturesque Beauty picturesque landscape picturesque traveller pleasure poem Poetical poetry precipices Prelude qualities river River Wye rocks romantic poets Salvator Rosa Salvatorian Samuel Taylor Coleridge Scafell scape scene scenery Scotland Scott seen Selincourt sense shade Shelley Shelley's sight solitude stream sublime suggests Summer things Thomas Gray Thomson thought Tintern Abbey torrents Tour trees vale vision visual walk Walpole waterfall whole William Wordsworth winding woods words writing wrote