The Poetics of Description

1. Introduction: Ecphrasis, Description, and the Imagined Place
Janice Hewlett Koelb

2. As If Present: Classical Ecphrasis
Janice Hewlett Koelb

3. Unity, Form, and Figuration
Janice Hewlett Koelb

4. A Sylvan Scene
Janice Hewlett Koelb

5. The Universe Dead or Alive: Gilpin, Wordsworth, and the Picturesque
Janice Hewlett Koelb

6. The Visionary Eye: Wordsworth’s Antipicturesque Excursion
Janice Hewlett Koelb

7. “Till the Place Became Religion”: Byron’s Coliseum
Janice Hewlett Koelb

8. Epilogue: Immediacy
Janice Hewlett Koelb

Keywords: Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, European Literature