The Art of Discrimination: Thomson's The Seasons, and the Language of Criticism

Allan Cunningham analogy analysis Anna Seward artistic assumed assumptions audience Autumn beauties Castle of Indolence characteristics comparison concept created declared descriptive poetry discrimination Edinburgh edition eighteenth century English Literature Essay example explain expression feeling genius Hazlitt Heron ideas identified illus illustrations imagery images imagination implied interpretation Jahreszeiten James Thomson John Aikin John Moir Johnson Joseph Warton kind L The Seasons landscape Lavinia literary critics Macaulay Millar Milton mind moral Murdoch Musidora natural description neglect nineteenth century NNC The Seasons o'er object original painting particular passages personification philosophical picture poem poet poet's poetic diction Pope popular qualities Quérard readers reference revisions Robert Robert Heron Robert Shiels Saisons scenes Scott sentiments Shiels sought Spring statements Strictures style sublime Summer taste theory Thomson's descriptions Thomson's language Thomson's Seasons tion unity vividness Warton William Winter words Wordsworth writing wrote