Heroic Nature; Ideal Landscape in English Poetry from Marvell to Thomson

achieve aesthetic allegorical angels appear artists associated attempt baroque beauty become Book called cited classical contrast Criticism dark decorative depicted describes designed Dryden's earth Earthly Paradise effect elements emblem emblematic English epic especially Essays example fall figure flowers garden Golden green ground groves heroic Hill Homer ideal landscape illustrate imagery Italian Italy kind land later less light lines literary literature London Marvell Marvell's meaning Milton moral mountains movement Mower nature night notes original painters painting Paradise Paradise Lost passage pastoral pictorial picture poem poet poetic poetry Pope Pope's Poussin present provides reader reference reflected Renaissance represent reveal rising scape scene Seasons seen sense setting seventeenth century shade significance Spring stanza structure style sublime suggest symbolic taste theme Thomson tion tradition translation trees Vergil visual visual arts wood York