The Unfolding of the Seasons

animals Augustan Autumn beauty becomes benevolence birds blending burlesque catalog Celadon clouds color contexts contrast create Deluge described destruction earth elements epizeuxis F. R. Leavis feelings Flood flowers forces fragments gentle Georgic God's Hagley Hall Hagley Park happy harmony heat Heaven human Hymn ideal imagery imply James Thomson language Lavinia leads light lover Lyttelton M. H. Abrams man's metaphoric Metonymy moral mountains movement moves muse Musidora narrator natural description nature's o'er Palemon Paradise Lost paradoxical passage passions peace periphrasis personification pleasure poem poet poet's poetic poetry praise present procedure Rage refers relation revision rise rural scene scientific season seen sense sexual Shade shower silence smiling snow social soft song Soul sounds spatial speaker Spring storm sublime suggest Summer swelling technique Theme Thomson writes Thomsonian thro tion torrid zone transformation unbounded verse paragraph virtues vision wandering wild Winter