Matches in UGent Biblio for { ?s ?p In attempts to explain and account for the immethodical, irregular, and supposedly fragmented form of James Thomson's The Seasons scholars have repeatedly discerned thematic and ideational patterns in the poem rather than tracing its generic diversity and acknowledging its formal integrity. Following Alastair Fowler's notions of kind and mode, The Seasons is contextualised in generic terms as a long poem which draws on the conventions and utilises elements of the epic and the ode to create a novel poetic kind. The interplay between the discursive and the expository, the descriptive and narrative elements of the epic and the dramatic qualities of the lyric modes is traced in one of the seasons, Spring (1728). The exploration of the generic hybridity of the poem will make visible the formal and generic cohesion of Thomson's composite The Seasons and enable a better understanding of the long poem generally.. }
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- aggregation abstract "In attempts to explain and account for the immethodical, irregular, and supposedly fragmented form of James Thomson's The Seasons scholars have repeatedly discerned thematic and ideational patterns in the poem rather than tracing its generic diversity and acknowledging its formal integrity. Following Alastair Fowler's notions of kind and mode, The Seasons is contextualised in generic terms as a long poem which draws on the conventions and utilises elements of the epic and the ode to create a novel poetic kind. The interplay between the discursive and the expository, the descriptive and narrative elements of the epic and the dramatic qualities of the lyric modes is traced in one of the seasons, Spring (1728). The exploration of the generic hybridity of the poem will make visible the formal and generic cohesion of Thomson's composite The Seasons and enable a better understanding of the long poem generally.".