The Measure of Paradise
Topography in Eighteenth-Century Poetry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16003431 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Foster (0000-0002-2601-1539, corresponding author), John Wilson Foster |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 232-232 |
| Publication date | 1975-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Eighteenth-Century Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-2586 • E-ISSN: 1086-315X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2737599 |
| OpenAlex | W2322145348 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
DISCUSSIONS ABOUT VISUAL COMPOSITION in eighteenth-century have mostly been concerned with the influence on the of landscape painting and landscape gardening. Nonetheless, several critics have sought to redress the balance by claiming that the principles and practice of visual composition were generated from within the itself. C. V. Deane, for example, tries to demonstrate that methods of composition in landscape are analogous to, and often identical in aim with those of landscape painting, but purely poetic in substance and execution.' While I do not think Deane is altogether convincing on the difference between poetic and pictorial composition, I believe he is correct in claiming that the larger design of eighteenth-century landscape poems is not wholly or primarily derived from painting or gardening. Apart from anything else, what Deane calls prospect poetry was well established as a genre before the popularity in England of landscape painting and gardening became widespread during the third and fourth decades of the century. The possibility remains, however, that there were external influences on visual composition in poetry, but that they came from elsewhere than from painting and gardening. The line of inquiry I
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |