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... The Saturday Magazine - Page 641841Full view - About this book
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some s tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To...field to fold, When rivers rage and rocks grow cold ; Ben Jonson's fine poem on Penshurst may dispute the palm of originality FROM 1625 CYCLOPAEDIA OF on... | |
| Alfred Webb - Ireland - 1878 - 616 pages
...species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape to be poetically described, with...such embellishments as may be supplied by historical retrospections or incidental meditation. He is one of the writers that improved our taste and advanced... | |
| Boys - Boys - 1880 - 362 pages
...species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape to be poetically described, with...historical retrospection or incidental meditation." John Milton (1608-1674).—" Paradise Lost," " Comus," " L' Allegro," " II Penseroso," " Lycidas."... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - Great Britain - 1885 - 440 pages
...species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject ia Bome particular landscape, to be poetically described,...historical retrospection or incidental meditation." — " That Sir John Denham began a reformation in our verse, is one of the most groundless assertions... | |
| Jacques Parmentier - English language - 1887 - 364 pages
...species of composition that may be denominated localpoetnj, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described,...historical retrospection or incidental meditation. This department was afterwards cultivated with great success by English writers and almost exclusively... | |
| Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 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
...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
...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 - Great Britain - 1899 - 600 pages
...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 - English literature - 1907 - 584 pages
...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... | |
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