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Perhaps no man can be a poet , or can even enjoy poetry , without a certain unsoundness of mind , if any thing which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness . By poetry we mean , not of course all writing in verse ...
Perhaps no man can be a poet , or can even enjoy poetry , without a certain unsoundness of mind , if any thing which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness . By poetry we mean , not of course all writing in verse ...
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It is not our intention to attempt any thing like a com- plete examination of the poetry of Milton . The public has long been agreed as to the merit of the most remarkable passages , the incomparable harmony of the numbers , and the ...
It is not our intention to attempt any thing like a com- plete examination of the poetry of Milton . The public has long been agreed as to the merit of the most remarkable passages , the incomparable harmony of the numbers , and the ...
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In the attempt to recon- cile things in their own nature inconsistent , he has failed , as every one must have failed . We cannot identify ourselves with the characters , as in a good play . We cannot identify ourselves with the poet ...
In the attempt to recon- cile things in their own nature inconsistent , he has failed , as every one must have failed . We cannot identify ourselves with the characters , as in a good play . We cannot identify ourselves with the poet ...
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... no image of the thing : and the business of poetry is with images , and not with words . The poet uses words indeed ; but they are merely the instruments of his art , not its objects . They are the materials which he is to dispose ...
... no image of the thing : and the business of poetry is with images , and not with words . The poet uses words indeed ; but they are merely the instruments of his art , not its objects . They are the materials which he is to dispose ...
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The style of the Athenian had , as we have remarked , some- thing of the vagueness and tenor of the oriental character ; and the same peculiarity may be traced in his mythology . It has nothing of the amenity and elegance which we gene- ...
The style of the Athenian had , as we have remarked , some- thing of the vagueness and tenor of the oriental character ; and the same peculiarity may be traced in his mythology . It has nothing of the amenity and elegance which we gene- ...
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