IV. The Values of Allegorical Personification: Collins and Gray

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments VII
3. Contents IX
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One
6. I. Addison and the Empirical Theory of Imagination 5
7. II. The Personified Abstraction as a “Fiction of the Mind” 31
8. III. The Personified Abstraction as an “Object of Sight” 52
9. IV. The Values of Allegorical Personification: Collins and Gray 68
10. V. Attitudes Toward Personification in the Late Eighteenth Century: Darwin and Wordsworth 81
11. Part Two
12. VI. Personification as a Figure of Rhetoric: Johnson 98
13. VII. The Inherent Values of Eighteenth-Century Personification: Pope 116
14. Conclusion 131
15. Notes 135
16. Bibliography of Works Cited 161
17. Index 171