Classic Writings on PoetryWilliam Harmon Columbia University Press, 13. apr 2005 - 560 pages The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre.—Ralph Waldo Emerson, from "The Poet" |
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... soul and ghostly form but no mind at all! [Iliad, 23] Again of Tiresias:— [To him even after death did Persephone grant mind,] that he alone should be wise; but the other souls are flitting shades. [Odyssey, 10] Again:— The soul flying ...
... soul of him who hears them. I do not say that these horrible stories may not have a use of some kind; but there is a danger that the nerves of our guardians may be rendered too excitable and effeminate by them. There is a real danger ...
... souls' health the rougher and severer poet or story-teller, who will imitate the style of the virtuous only, and will ... soul have been distinguished. What do you mean? Speaking in confidence, for I should not like to have my words ...
... soul. To be sure. And when this principle measures and certifies that some things are equal, or that some are ... soul which has an opinion contrary to measure is not the same with that which has an opinion in accordance with measure ...
William Harmon. True. And the better part of the soul is likely to be that which trusts to measure and calculation? Certainly. And that which is opposed to them is one of the inferior principles of the soul? No doubt. This was the ...
Contents
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3 Ars Poetica by Horace | 63 |
4 Germania excerpt by Publius Cornelius Tacitus | 75 |
5 On the Sublime excerpt by Longinus? | 79 |
6 Skáldskaparmál by Snorri Sturluson | 107 |
7 The Defence of Poesy by Sir Philip Sidney | 115 |
8 Of Education excerpt by John Milton | 153 |
18 English Bards and Scotch Reviewers excerpt by George Gordon Lord Byron | 331 |
19 A Defence of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley | 349 |
20 The Poet by William Cullen Bryant | 375 |
21 Poems by John Keats | 379 |
22 The Poet excerpt by Ralph Waldo Emerson | 385 |
23 Aurora Leigh Fifth Book excerpt by Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 405 |
24 Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 423 |
25 The Philosophy of Composition by Edgar Allan Poe | 429 |
10 An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope | 207 |
Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot by Alexander Pope | 229 |
11 Lives of the Poets excerpts by Samuel Johnson | 243 |
12 The Progress of Poesy by Thomas Gray | 269 |
13 Observations Prefixed to Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth | 277 |
14 Biographia Literaria Chapter XIV by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 297 |
15 The State of Modern Poetry excerpt by Francis Jeffrey | 305 |
16 On Poetry in General excerpt by William Hazlitt | 313 |
17 The Four Ages of Poetry excerpt by Thomas Love Peacock | 317 |
26 Preface to Leaves of Grass first edition 1855 excerpt by Walt Whitman | 443 |
27 The Study of Poetry by Matthew Arnold | 461 |
28 Poems by Emily Dickinson | 485 |
29 Proofs of Holy Writ by Rudyard Kipling | 493 |
30 A Retrospect by Ezra Pound | 507 |
31 The Possibility of a Poetic Drama by T S Eliot | 519 |
32 Poetic Reality and Critical Unreality by Laura Riding Jackson
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