Poetics: An Essay on PoetrySmith, Elder, and Company, 1852 - 294 pagina's |
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Pagina 5
... Thomas Gray , when he allows the possibility of a mute inglorious Milton ; and , in our own times , Thomas Carlyle - uphold that genius is but mind of greater strength and larger growth than ordi- nary INTRODUCTION . 5.
... Thomas Gray , when he allows the possibility of a mute inglorious Milton ; and , in our own times , Thomas Carlyle - uphold that genius is but mind of greater strength and larger growth than ordi- nary INTRODUCTION . 5.
Pagina 6
... Mind of such an order soon becomes alive to the powers with which it has been gifted ; and fearlessly trusting in the same , shaking off , not indeed the guidance , but the yoke of authority , and going forward in its own indwelling ...
... Mind of such an order soon becomes alive to the powers with which it has been gifted ; and fearlessly trusting in the same , shaking off , not indeed the guidance , but the yoke of authority , and going forward in its own indwelling ...
Pagina 7
... mind is not to another . Therefore we are not to ask what are the things that give birth to poetic feeling , which would be as idle as to reckon up all the things that make one angry ; but we have to determine that state or mood of the mind ...
... mind is not to another . Therefore we are not to ask what are the things that give birth to poetic feeling , which would be as idle as to reckon up all the things that make one angry ; but we have to determine that state or mood of the mind ...
Pagina 9
... mind wherein poetry is felt ; next , that mood of mind wherein it is uttered - poetry , and the art of poetry . This distinction will henceforward be observed , at least , wherever there is need of accuracy ; and I therefore beg leave ...
... mind wherein poetry is felt ; next , that mood of mind wherein it is uttered - poetry , and the art of poetry . This distinction will henceforward be observed , at least , wherever there is need of accuracy ; and I therefore beg leave ...
Pagina 10
... mind giving birth to song , belongs rather to the whole art of composition or utterance than to this one corner of ... minds . " 10 INTRODUCTION .
... mind giving birth to song , belongs rather to the whole art of composition or utterance than to this one corner of ... minds . " 10 INTRODUCTION .
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activity Æneid Aristotle artist Bacon beautiful believe belongs blank verse called chiefly Christian classical Clement of Rome cloth critics Divine doctrine doubt drama dramatic art dramatists Dugald Stewart E. S. DALLAS endeavours English epic Euripides Euroclydon expression fact faculty faith former Freedom genius give Greek happiness heart heaven Homer human idea Iliad imagery imagination imitative Immortality instinct Jeremy Collier JULIA KAVANAGH kinds of poesy language latter law of poetry least less look lyrical manner means metaphor metre mind modern narrative nature never object perhaps philosopher pleasure plurality poem poet poetic feeling post 8vo present prose reader reality reason regard remarkable rhyme romantic seen self-consciousness sense Shakespere simile simply Sir Philip Sidney song Sophocles soul speak spirit stanza tell theory things thought tion true truly truth uncon unconsciousness utterance whole words Wordsworth writing
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Pagina 54 - Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which attract, and the concealment of those which repel the imagination; but religion must be shown as it is; suppression and addition equally corrupt it; and such as it is, it is known already.
Pagina 144 - OF MAN'S first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, Heavenly Muse, that, on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of Chaos...