He seems to have been, at least among us, the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described with the addition of such embellishments as... Clyde, a Descriptive Poem - Page 30by John Wilson, John Leyden - 1859 - 120 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert Gibbs - 1888 - 442 pages
...of a " species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape to be poetically described,...supplied by historical retrospection or incidental meditations." Sir John performed signal services to the Royal Family during the civil war, and, according... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1871 - 524 pages
...that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular laDdscape, to be poetically described, with the addition of such...historical retrospection or incidental meditation." Under hia proud surrey the city lies, And like a mist beneath a hill does rise, Whose state and wealth,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 236 pages
...author of a species of composition that may be dominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described,...historical retrospection or incidental meditation" (Johnson in his Life of Denham). 1. 23. Waller's poem on The Park. Waller wrote no poem of that name.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 pages
...author of a species of composition that may be dominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described,...historical retrospection or incidental meditation " (Johnson in his Life of Denham). 1. 23. Waller's poem on The Park. Waller wrote no poem of that name.... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1899 - 600 pages
...of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described,...such embellishments as may be supplied by historical retrospect or incidental meditation."—Cooper's Biog. Diet. ,"» , v AI 1 . CHAP. XXXII. Dec. 6, i?43Murray's... | |
| Andrew Lang, John Churton Collins - 1907 - 588 pages
...of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described,...historical retrospection or incidental meditation." And certainly Denham became the founder of a long dynasty of poets, who with various modifications... | |
| Amy Louise Reed - 1924 - 300 pages
...occur in what Samuel Johnson later denominated " local poetry, of which the fundamental subject ig some particular landscape to be poetically described,...historical retrospection or incidental meditation." e Johnson's definition puts the emphasis where it belonged in his own time, on the element of description,... | |
| Robert Wylie King - 1925 - 394 pages
...Denham's Cooper's Hill, had called " local poetry." " The fundamental subject," said the Doctor, " is some particular landscape, to be poetically described,...historical retrospection or incidental meditation." Thus in both Growe and Gary we have the description of the scene from a particular hill,2 the note... | |
| John George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson - 1926 - 510 pages
...of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described,...historical retrospection, or incidental meditation'-.' This is best seen by summarizing the poem. After an invocation to Cooper's Hill, the poet looks from... | |
| Sir John Denham - 1928 - 386 pages
...of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described,...such embellishments as may be supplied by historical retroignorant of Denham's work until he had completed three acts of his own play, which was modeled... | |
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