Routledge Revivals: The Unfolding of the Seasons (1970): A Study of James Thomson's Poem

by Ralph Cohen

First published in 1970, this is a critical study providing an interpretation and evaluation of James Thomson's poem The Seasons. Professor Cohen urges its reconsideration as a major Augustan poem, arguing that Thomson's unity, diction, and thought combine with a conception of man, nature, and God which is poetically tenable and distinctive. Professor Cohen shows that Thomson's great achievement is to have fashioned a conception which, by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138560375
• ISBN13: 9781138560376
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 338 Pages