James Thomson's Defence of Poetry formatIsbn:Hardcover - 9783484450387 -- 44 The Implicit Teleology

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second edition (2020)

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James Thomson's Defence of Poetry formatIsbn:Hardcover - 9783484450387 -- 44 The Implicit TeleologyThis study presents a contextual and intertextual reading of James Thomson's (1700 1748) poem The Seasons, taking into consideration some of the presuppositions and habitus of the text's cultural community and the function of the poem's many intertextual allusions. Contemporary assumptions about processes of perception, reading and the practice of virtue call for an approach to the poem that takes literary pre texts into account. An intertextual