(1) By dawn on Saturday, the fog had taken possession of the downtown streets: the coast road would be viewless .(2) This anti-visual rhetoric of interiority is prevalent in much Romantic writing, from Keats's longing to escape on ‘the viewless wings of poesy,’ to Coleridge and Wordsworth's denunciation of the ‘despotism of the eye.’(3) To borrow Keats's words, humankind ascends on the ‘ viewless wings of Poesy’ towards the Godhead (‘Ode to a Nightingale’ 33).
