In William Collins's "endeavours to embody the fleeting forms of mind, and clothe them with correspondent imagery, he is not infrequently obscure."
— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies
Date
1797
Metaphor
In William Collins's "endeavours to embody the fleeting forms of mind, and clothe them with correspondent imagery, he is not infrequently obscure."
Metaphor in Context
[...] In his endeavours to embody the fleeting forms of mind, and clothe them with correspondent imagery, he is not unfrequently obscure; but even when obscure, the reader who possesses congenial feelings is not ill pleased to find his faculties put upon the stretch in the search of those sublime ideas which are apt, from their shadowy nature, to elude the grasp of the mind.
(p. vii.)
(p. vii.)
Categories
Provenance
Reading Earl R. Wasserman's "The Inherent Values of Eighteenth-Century Personification." PMLA 65.4 (1950): 435-63. p. 442. Confirmed in ECCO.
Citation
Essay titled "On the Poetical Works of Mr. William Collins." See The Poetical Works of Mr. William Collins. With a Prefatory Essay, By Mrs. Barbauld. (London: Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1797). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
06/01/2006
Date of Review
12/03/2008
