Personification in Eighteenth-Century English Poetry / / Chester F. Chapin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Chapin, Chester F.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1954]; ©1954
• Year of Publication: 1954
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; Introduction --; Part One --; I. Addison and the Empirical Theory of Imagination --; II. The Personified Abstraction as a "Fiction of the Mind" --; III. The Personified Abstraction as an "Object of Sight" --; IV. The Values of Allegorical Personification: Collins and Gray --; V. Attitudes Toward Personification in the Late Eighteenth Century: Darwin and Wordsworth --; Part Two --; VI. Personification as a Figure of Rhetoric: Johnson --; VII. The Inherent Values of Eighteenth-Century Personification: Pope --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography of Works Cited --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231887960; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/chap92288
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Chester F. Chapin.

Studies 18th century personification by looking at the personification abstraction rather than with personification of material objects. Also sets the abstraction against a background of poetic theory and practice relevant to 18th century verse in its larger aspects.