Matches in UGent Biblio for { ?s ?p Continuing his creative engagement with the literary past that had already been manifested in Winter. A Poem (1726), James Thomson fashions a poetics in Summer. A Poem. (1727) that promotes national pride, patriotism, and an attempt at generating an intellectual canon of writers. He capitalises on the high-cultural value attributed to John Milton’s works in eighteenth-century English society by hypotextually modelling his descriptive nature poem on his illustrious predecessor’s poetry. He adopts a Miltonic diction and imbues Summer with an epic modulation, in the process appropriating Augustan poetic diction for his narrative-descriptive mode. In several reflective passages in his generically hybrid poem, Thomson theorises his adaptation and reworking of the poetic precepts of his literary model, hoping––above all––that his work, in line with other popular imitations of Milton, will find favour in the literary marketplace.. }
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- aggregation abstract "Continuing his creative engagement with the literary past that had already been manifested in Winter. A Poem (1726), James Thomson fashions a poetics in Summer. A Poem. (1727) that promotes national pride, patriotism, and an attempt at generating an intellectual canon of writers. He capitalises on the high-cultural value attributed to John Milton’s works in eighteenth-century English society by hypotextually modelling his descriptive nature poem on his illustrious predecessor’s poetry. He adopts a Miltonic diction and imbues Summer with an epic modulation, in the process appropriating Augustan poetic diction for his narrative-descriptive mode. In several reflective passages in his generically hybrid poem, Thomson theorises his adaptation and reworking of the poetic precepts of his literary model, hoping––above all––that his work, in line with other popular imitations of Milton, will find favour in the literary marketplace.".