In William Collins's "endeavours to embody the fleeting forms of mind, and clothe them with correspondent imagery, he is not unfrequently obscure"
— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Work Title
Date
1797
Metaphor
In William Collins's "endeavours to embody the fleeting forms of mind, and clothe them with correspondent imagery, he is not unfrequently 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 Wasserman, Earl R. "The Inherent Values of Eighteenth-Century Personification." PMLA 65.4 (1950): 435-63. p. 442.
Date of Entry
06/01/2006
Date of Review
12/03/2008
