On Poetic Interpretation of Nature
by John Campbell Shairp
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About this eBook
- Author
- Shairp, John Campbell, 1819-1885
- Title
- On poetic interpretation of nature
- Original Publication
- United States: Houghton, Mifflin,1900.
- Credits
- Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections
- Subject
- Nature in literature
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 68066
- Release Date
- May 13, 2022
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.PREFACE.
- 3.CONTENTS.
- 4.THE POETIC INTERPRETATION OF NATURE. — CHAPTER I. THE SOURCES OF POETRY.
- 5.CHAPTER II. THE POETIC FEELING AWAKENED BY THE WORLD OF NATURE.
- 6.CHAPTER III. POETIC AND SCIENTIFIC WONDER.
- 7.CHAPTER IV. WILL SCIENCE PUT OUT POETRY?
- 8.CHAPTER V. HOW FAR SCIENCE MAY MODIFY POETRY.
- 9.CHAPTER VI. THE MYSTICAL SIDE OF NATURE.
- 10.CHAPTER VII. PRIMEVAL IMAGINATION WORKING ON NATURE—LANGUAGE AND MYTHOLOGY.
- 11.CHAPTER VIII. SOME OF THE WAYS IN WHICH POETS DEAL WITH NATURE. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII.
- 12.CHAPTER IX. NATURE IN HEBREW POETRY, AND IN HOMER. — HOMER.
- 13.CHAPTER X. NATURE IN LUCRETIUS AND VIRGIL.
- 14.CHAPTER XI. NATURE IN CHAUCER, SHAKESPEARE, AND MILTON. — SHAKESPEARE. — MILTON.
- 15.CHAPTER XII. RETURN TO NATURE BEGUN BY ALLAN RAMSAY AND THOMSON. — THOMSON.
- 16.CHAPTER XIII. NATURE IN COLLINS, GRAY, GOLDSMITH, AND BURNS. — COLLINS. — GRAY. — GOLDSMITH. — COWPER. — BURNS. — THE BALLADS. — OSSIAN.
- 17.CHAPTER XIV. WORDSWORTH AS AN INTERPRETER OF NATURE.
- 18.FOOTNOTES
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