English Lyric in the Age of Reason

admired age of reason Akenside Anna Seward appeared Augustan ballad Batheaston beauty Beggar's Opera Blake charm Chatterton Collins Collins's couplet Cowper Crabbe criticism dark death delight despair disillusion Dryden earlier eighteenth century Elegy Eloisa to Abelard emotion English poetry expression eyes Fancy feeling genius Goldsmith grace Gray Gray's heart Hill human Ibid ideal imagination imitation influence infra inspired Johnson Joseph Warton later letter light lines literary literature live love of nature lyric Lyrical Ballads melancholy mood Muse mystic never night o'er passion Percy pleasure poem poet poet's poetic Pope Pope's Prior reason romantic sang says Shenstone simplicity sing song Songs of Experience sorrow soul Spenser spirit stanza strange sweet Swift tear thee Thomas Warton Thomson thou thought tion truth Unwin verse Walpole Warton Wordsworth writes written wrote wyllowe Young