Introduction: Ecphrasis, Description, and the Imagined Place "As If Present": Classical Ecphrasis Unity, Form, and Figuration A Sylvan Scene The Universe Dead or Alive: Gilpin, Wordsworth, and the Picturesque The Visionary Eye: Wordsworth's Anti-picturesque Excursion "Till the Place Became Religion": Byron's Coliseum Epilogue: Immediacy
