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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... character , and continuity , all in the largest amount and highest degree , is the greatest poet . Poetry includes whatsoever of painting can be made visible to the mind's eye , and whatsoever of music can be conveyed by sound and ...
... character , and continuity , all in the largest amount and highest degree , is the greatest poet . Poetry includes whatsoever of painting can be made visible to the mind's eye , and whatsoever of music can be conveyed by sound and ...
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... character and events directly imitated from real life , with imita- tive realities of its own invention ; as the probable parts of the histories of Priam and Macbeth , or what may be called natural fiction as distinguished from ...
... character and events directly imitated from real life , with imita- tive realities of its own invention ; as the probable parts of the histories of Priam and Macbeth , or what may be called natural fiction as distinguished from ...
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... character , the single and sweet unconsciousness of the heroine making all the rest seem more conscious , and ghastly , and ex- pectant . It is thus that versification itself becomes part of the sentiment of a poem , and vindicates the ...
... character , the single and sweet unconsciousness of the heroine making all the rest seem more conscious , and ghastly , and ex- pectant . It is thus that versification itself becomes part of the sentiment of a poem , and vindicates the ...
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... character , makes the greatest poets ; feeling and thought the next ; fancy ( by itself ) the next ; wit_the_last . Thought by itself makes no poet at all ; for the mere conclu- sions of the understanding can at best be only so many ...
... character , makes the greatest poets ; feeling and thought the next ; fancy ( by itself ) the next ; wit_the_last . Thought by itself makes no poet at all ; for the mere conclu- sions of the understanding can at best be only so many ...
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... character . THE CAVE OF MAMMON AND GARDEN OF PROSERPINE . Sir Guyon , crossing a desert , finds Mammon sitting amidst his gold in a gloomy valley . Mammon , taking him down into his cave , tempts him with the treasures there , and also ...
... character . THE CAVE OF MAMMON AND GARDEN OF PROSERPINE . Sir Guyon , crossing a desert , finds Mammon sitting amidst his gold in a gloomy valley . Mammon , taking him down into his cave , tempts him with the treasures there , and also ...
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