Major Adjectives in English Poetry from Wyatt to Auden

abstract active adjectival Auden bright century characteristic Chaucer Claude Colleer Abbott Collins color compounds concept concordance contexts Crane cruel dark David Gascoyne dead dear death deep descriptive device difference Donne's Eliot Elizabethan Eloisa emphasis English poetry epithet tradition Essay fair feeling forms frequency gentle Gray green happy Hart Crane heart Hopkins Housman human Keats kind Lady of Shalott Language less London major adjectives major terms major words Milton modern mood mutable nature negative noted nouns participial pattern poems poets Pope Pope's Press proportion quantity representative scene scenic seems sense terms sensory Shakespeare shared Shelley shift soft sonnet sort Spenser standard Stevens stress strong structure Studies sweet Tennyson terms of sense theme thou thought thousand lines tion tive true Udny Yule variety verbs vocabulary Wallace Stevens Whitman whole wild Wordsworth Wyatt and Donne Yeats ΙΟ