A Defense of PoetryGinn & Company, 1891 - 86 páginas |
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Página xviii
... soul of poetry , numbers con- stitute the usual and fitting body to this soul . Plato is in- stanced by both as a prose - poet , or , if the phrase be preferred , as a prosaist whose substance is poetical . Again , poetic art improves ...
... soul of poetry , numbers con- stitute the usual and fitting body to this soul . Plato is in- stanced by both as a prose - poet , or , if the phrase be preferred , as a prosaist whose substance is poetical . Again , poetic art improves ...
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... concealing the eternal proportions of their beauty . An epic or dramatic personage is understood to wear them around his soul , as he may the ancient armor or But modern uniform around his body ; whilst it is easy 12 POETRY MUST ELEVATE .
... concealing the eternal proportions of their beauty . An epic or dramatic personage is understood to wear them around his soul , as he may the ancient armor or But modern uniform around his body ; whilst it is easy 12 POETRY MUST ELEVATE .
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... flourished , is a mark of a corruption of manners , and an extinction of the energies which sustain the soul of social life . But , as Machiavelli says of political institutions , that life may be preserved and renewed , if men should.
... flourished , is a mark of a corruption of manners , and an extinction of the energies which sustain the soul of social life . But , as Machiavelli says of political institutions , that life may be preserved and renewed , if men should.
Página 46
... soul . It is impossible to read the compositions of the most celebrated writers of the present day without being startled with the electric life which burns within their 20 words . They measure the circumference and sound the depths of ...
... soul . It is impossible to read the compositions of the most celebrated writers of the present day without being startled with the electric life which burns within their 20 words . They measure the circumference and sound the depths of ...
Página 64
... soul out of itself with indescribable longings , is poetry in kind , and generally fit to become so in name , by being ' mar- ried to immortal verse . ' If it is of the essence of poetry to strike and fix the imagination , whether we ...
... soul out of itself with indescribable longings , is poetry in kind , and generally fit to become so in name , by being ' mar- ried to immortal verse . ' If it is of the essence of poetry to strike and fix the imagination , whether we ...
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Términos y frases comunes
action Æschylus age of gold age of poetry ancient Apollonius Rhodius awakened barbarism Bavius beauty become cæsura Celtic nations character civil Codrus comedy compose composition corruption creations creative cyclic poets Dante Defense of Poesy delight divine drama effect elements epic essay eternal evil expression genius Goethe grave novels Greek harmony Hence highest history of Herodotus Homer human nature ideal imagination imitation immortal influence inspiration intellectual intense iron age King Lear knowledge language less literature Livy Lord Bacon Mævius manners melody Milton mind modern poetry moral Muse never Nonnus object observation Paradise passion Peacock perfection perhaps Petrarch philosophers Pindar Plato pleasure poem poetical faculty poetical impressions portion principle produced prose reason relation religion rhapsodist rhythm Roman selectest sense Shakespeare Shelley Sidney society songs soul spirit splendor things thought tion true truth universal verse whilst words writers ΙΟ
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Página xxiii - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine ; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the treacherous fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out His seraphim with the hallowed fire of His altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases...
Página 39 - Could this influence be durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the results ; but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry that has ever been communicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet.
Página 73 - Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind ; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto noble words...
Página 76 - For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath.
Página 76 - It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Página 5 - ... the institutors of laws, and the founders of civil society, and the inventors of the arts of life, and the teachers, who draw into a certain propinquity with the beautiful and the true that partial apprehension of the agencies of the invisible world which is called religion.
Página 40 - It is as it were the interpenetration of a diviner nature through our own ; but its footsteps are like those of a wind over the sea, which the coming calm erases, and whose traces remain only as on the wrinkled sand which paves it.
Página 46 - Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Página 14 - The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Página 79 - And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.