Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative of Those First Requisites of Their Art; with Markings of the Best Passages, Critical Notices of the Writers, and an Essay in Answer to the Question, "What is Poetry?"Wiley and Putnam, 1845 - 255 pages |
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... Chaucer to Campbell ( here mentioned because he is the latest de- ceased poet ) ; the Poetry of Contemplation , from Surrey to Campbell ; -- the Poetry of Wit and Humor , from Chau- cer to Byron ; and the Poetry of Song , or Lyrical ...
... Chaucer to Campbell ( here mentioned because he is the latest de- ceased poet ) ; the Poetry of Contemplation , from Surrey to Campbell ; -- the Poetry of Wit and Humor , from Chau- cer to Byron ; and the Poetry of Song , or Lyrical ...
Page x
... Chaucer again ( see in his Works his admirable and only song , beginning Hide , Absalom , thy gilded tresses clear ) , to Campbell again , and Burns , and O'Keefe . These vo . lumes , if he is not mistaken , would present the Public ...
... Chaucer again ( see in his Works his admirable and only song , beginning Hide , Absalom , thy gilded tresses clear ) , to Campbell again , and Burns , and O'Keefe . These vo . lumes , if he is not mistaken , would present the Public ...
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... Chaucer , who flourished before the existence of a " literary world , " and were not perplexed by a heap of notions and opinions , or by doubts how emotion ought to be expressed . The greatest of their suc- cessors never write equally ...
... Chaucer , who flourished before the existence of a " literary world , " and were not perplexed by a heap of notions and opinions , or by doubts how emotion ought to be expressed . The greatest of their suc- cessors never write equally ...
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... Chaucer , for all he was of this world as well as the poets ' world , and as great , per- haps a greater enemy of oppression than Dante , besides being one of the profoundest masters of pathos that ever lived , had not the heart to ...
... Chaucer , for all he was of this world as well as the poets ' world , and as great , per- haps a greater enemy of oppression than Dante , besides being one of the profoundest masters of pathos that ever lived , had not the heart to ...
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... Chaucer , Sleeping against the sun upon a day , when Apollo slew him . Hence the chariot - drawing dolphins of Spenser , softly swimming along the shore lest they should hurt themselves against the stones and gravel . Hence Shakspeare's ...
... Chaucer , Sleeping against the sun upon a day , when Apollo slew him . Hence the chariot - drawing dolphins of Spenser , softly swimming along the shore lest they should hurt themselves against the stones and gravel . Hence Shakspeare's ...
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