Critical Essays of the Early Nineteenth CenturyRaymond Macdonald Alden C. Scribner's Sons, 1921 - 410 páginas |
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... thought but ne'er so well expressed . " In contrast , the age of Wordsworth viewed poetry primarily as a means of communicating emotion by representing not so much the objective facts as the subjective reaction to them , and secondarily ...
... thought but ne'er so well expressed . " In contrast , the age of Wordsworth viewed poetry primarily as a means of communicating emotion by representing not so much the objective facts as the subjective reaction to them , and secondarily ...
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... thought . Of course this was not wholly new ; the very words just used , " serious " and " philosophic , " or some- thing like them , were applied by Aristotle to poetry in contrast with history , and were repeated a thousand times by ...
... thought . Of course this was not wholly new ; the very words just used , " serious " and " philosophic , " or some- thing like them , were applied by Aristotle to poetry in contrast with history , and were repeated a thousand times by ...
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... thought for the matter . In general , this view of the proper relationship between creative art and goodness has been the dominant one through the years since Shelley's time . Of the other accounts of the nature of poetry included in ...
... thought for the matter . In general , this view of the proper relationship between creative art and goodness has been the dominant one through the years since Shelley's time . Of the other accounts of the nature of poetry included in ...
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... thought . " All this may be true - probably is true , and is not actually in conflict with the romantic doctrine ; but it is by no means the special contribution of the early nineteenth century to the subject . Leigh Hunt had little of ...
... thought . " All this may be true - probably is true , and is not actually in conflict with the romantic doctrine ; but it is by no means the special contribution of the early nineteenth century to the subject . Leigh Hunt had little of ...
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... thought of him as lifted wholly above the tendencies which affected his contem- poraries , a notion , if they had stopped to consider it , inconsistent with their own theory of his work as or- ganically produced . Hence there grew up ...
... thought of him as lifted wholly above the tendencies which affected his contem- poraries , a notion , if they had stopped to consider it , inconsistent with their own theory of his work as or- ganically produced . Hence there grew up ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 216 - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Página 212 - tis later, sir. Ban. Hold, take my sword. There's husbandry in heaven, Their candles are all out. Take thee that too. A heavy summons lies like lead upon me, And yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers, Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature Gives way to in repose!
Página 229 - Ingratitude ! thou marble-hearted fiend, More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child Than the sea-monster ! Alb.
Página 13 - Aristotle, I have been told, has said, that Poetry is the most philosophic of all writing : it is so : its object is truth^ not individual and local, but general, and operative ; not standing upon external testimony, but carried alive into the heart by passion...
Página 384 - The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Página 222 - The Lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic. Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Página 3 - ... a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.
Página 104 - DURING the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination.
Página 162 - Made for our searching : yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon For simple sheep ; and such are daffodils With the green world they live in...
Página 233 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.