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The Poem
James Thomson (1700-1748)
James Thomson was a nature poet. He published his earliest version of descriptive poem Winter in 405 lines of blank verse. He also published: Summer, Spring, and Autumn in the first collected edition of The Seasons to which he added the Hymn to the seasons. His last poem, The Castle of Indolence, is a witty imitation of (Edmund) Spenser.
The Seasons set the fashion for the poetry of natural description. Generations of readers learned to look at the external world through Thomson’s eyes and with the emotions that he had taught them to feel. The eye dominates the literature of external nature during the 18th century as the Imagination was to do in the poetry of William Wordsworth. Thomson amazed his readers by his capacity to see: the general effects of light and cloud and foliage or the particular image of a leaf tossed in the gale or the slender feet of a robin or the delicate film of ice at the edge of a brook. He tries to see each season from every perspective, as it might be perceived by a bird in the sky or by the tiniest insect, by God or a painter or Sir Isaac Newton. As the poem grew, it became an Omnium Gatherum of contemporary ideas and interest: natural history; ideas about the nature of man and society, primitive and civilized; the conception of created nature as a source of religious experience, as an object of religious veneration, and as a continuing revelation of a creator whose presence fills the world.
Hello,
The red part The Poem refers to which part of the text? It refers to which poem?
I'm confused.
Thank you.
James Thomson was a nature poet. He published his earliest version of descriptive poem Winter in 405 lines of blank verse. He also published: Summer, Spring, and Autumn in the first collected edition of The Seasons to which he added the Hymn to the seasons. His last poem, The Castle of Indolence, is a witty imitation of (Edmund) Spenser.
The Seasons set the fashion for the poetry of natural description. Generations of readers learned to look at the external world through Thomson’s eyes and with the emotions that he had taught them to feel. The eye dominates the literature of external nature during the 18th century as the Imagination was to do in the poetry of William Wordsworth. Thomson amazed his readers by his capacity to see: the general effects of light and cloud and foliage or the particular image of a leaf tossed in the gale or the slender feet of a robin or the delicate film of ice at the edge of a brook. He tries to see each season from every perspective, as it might be perceived by a bird in the sky or by the tiniest insect, by God or a painter or Sir Isaac Newton. As the poem grew, it became an Omnium Gatherum of contemporary ideas and interest: natural history; ideas about the nature of man and society, primitive and civilized; the conception of created nature as a source of religious experience, as an object of religious veneration, and as a continuing revelation of a creator whose presence fills the world.
Hello,
The red part The Poem refers to which part of the text? It refers to which poem?
I'm confused.
Thank you.
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It's not immediately clear what the poem refers to. I think it may refer in general to each poem that Thomson wrote. The preceding sentences describe how Thomson worked on whatever poem he happened to be writing.
- It's not immediately clear what the poem refers to.
- I think it may refer in general to each poem that Thomson wrote.
- The preceding sentences describe how Thomson worked on whatever poem he happened to be writing.
- Clive
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It's not immediately clear what the poem refers to. I think it may refer in general to each poem that Thomson wrote. The preceding sentences describe how Thomson worked on whatever poem he happened to be writing.
Clive
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