 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
 | Richard N. Ringler, Dick Ringler, Jónas Hallgrímsson - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 520 pages
...be useful here) as "local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape ... with the addition of such embellishments as may be...historical retrospection or incidental meditation" (Life ofDenham; NPE 286-87). 6. "Capes and Islands" is the collective title given by Jonas to the first... | |
 | Pat Rogers - Berkshire (England) - 2004 - 284 pages
...loco-descriptive poem, in which—to follow Johnson's celebrated formula—"some particular landscape is poetically described, with the addition of such embellishments...historical retrospection, or incidental meditation." This fails, however, to do full justice to the complex design of the poem. It is less that the ingredients... | |
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