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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...has not altogether been escaped, as may be seen by referring to such passages as i. 9; xlii. 5; 1. 3; xcv. 42, 43; cxxiv. cxxiv. 3. But the poem is marvellously free from abstract phraseology, such as spoils much of Wordsworth's verse. This result is produced by a rich use of all the varied devices of poetry. Personification is especially used in "landscape" poems, and gives life to the Introduction, ii., iii., iv., vi. 9, 12, 25; vii., ix., x., xiii. 13; xv. 10; xvii., xviii. 9; xix., xxviii., xxix. n--16; xxxv. 6,13; xxxvi., xxxvii., xxxix., xlvi. 13; 1. 7, 8; lvi., lix., lxxi., lxxii., lxxiii. 13; lxxxii., lxxxiii., lxxxvi., lxxxix., xcv. 41, xcviii. 10; xcix., cii., cvi., cxiv., cxv., cxvii., cxix., cxx. 6; cxxi., cxxiii., cxxv. 5, 6; cxxvi., cxxviii., often combined with apostrophe and impassioned exclamation, which appear Notice accurate use of the inverted comma of abbreviation "touch'd," &c. &c. The "landscape poems" are especially rich in metaphor. E cxxiii. 7 (" like mist"). We may add that two of the poems (lxix. and ciii.) take the form of Allegory. Very often a graphic effect is produced by the use of the "figures bT"coniigiiityr"-autonomasia, synecdoche, or metonymy--v. 5 (" heart and brain"); viii. 6 ("bower and hall"); ix. 7 ('mast"), 9, 10 ("air, perplex thy sliding keel"); x. 7 ("hands"); xv. 7 ("tower and tree"); xxi. 22 (" sacred dust"); xxxv. 12 (" the dust"); xxxiv. 8 ("lowly doors"); xl. 3, 4, xlv. 13 ("blood and breath "); 1. 2 (" blood," " nerves "?); lviii. 7 (" clay "); lxviii. 13, lxxiii. 6 (" wreath "); lxxx. 3...