Personification and Community
Literary Change in the Mid and Late Eighteenth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16003403 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clifford Siskin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 371-371 |
| Publication date | 1982-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Eighteenth-Century Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-2586 • E-ISSN: 1086-315X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2738436 |
| OpenAlex | W2329171984 |
| Language | EN |
M ID AND LATE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE has always been a nuisance for literary historians, particularly Romantic literary historians. When, for example, we attempt neat periodizations hinging on the French Revolution or Lyrical Ballads, we tend to treat Gray's rustic moralist and visionary bard or Collins's divinely creative Poetical Character or Akenside's pleasurable Imagination as labor pains heralding the arrival of a new age for which Blake is the eccentric midwife. Northrop Frye has described the pedagogical results
Art · Literature · History · Moravian Church and William Blake · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Short Stories in Global Literature
| Highly cited | No |
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