An essay on the application of natural history to poetry / [John Aikin].

  • Aikin, John, 1747-1822.
Date:
1777
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Credit: An essay on the application of natural history to poetry / [John Aikin]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Several other inflances might be adduced of the introdu6lioii of the fame circumftance into an evening landfldpi but as they are chiefly to be met with in pieces of inferior reputation^ it would be fuperfluous to particularize them. In all the preceding quotations the image is employed with propriety, and repre- fented with elegance; but its fuccelTive adoption by fo many different writers fufliciently evinces what I meant to deduce from it, a real want of variety in poetical imagery, proceeding from a fcarcity of original obfervations of na¬ ture. t The want of variety and novelty is not, however, the only defedt of thofe poets who have occafionally introdu¬ ced