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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... things , and of the probable riches of infinitude . Poetry is a passion , * because it seeks the deepest impressions ; and because it must undergo , in order to convey them . It is a passion for truth , because without truth the ...
... things , and of the probable riches of infinitude . Poetry is a passion , * because it seeks the deepest impressions ; and because it must undergo , in order to convey them . It is a passion for truth , because without truth the ...
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... things to be expressed shows the amount of its resources ; and the continuity of the song completes the evidence of its strength and greatness . He who has thought , feeling , expres- sion , imagination , action , character , and ...
... things to be expressed shows the amount of its resources ; and the continuity of the song completes the evidence of its strength and greatness . He who has thought , feeling , expres- sion , imagination , action , character , and ...
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... things themselves ; music , in a certain audible manner , is their very emotion and grace . Mu- sic and painting are proud to be related to poetry , and poetry loves and is proud of them . Poetry begins where matter of fact or of ...
... things themselves ; music , in a certain audible manner , is their very emotion and grace . Mu- sic and painting are proud to be related to poetry , and poetry loves and is proud of them . Poetry begins where matter of fact or of ...
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... thing , and shows a lovely imagination , when the poet can write a commentary , as it were , of his own , on such sufficing passages of nature , and be thanked for the addition . There is an instance of this kind in Warner , an old ...
... thing , and shows a lovely imagination , when the poet can write a commentary , as it were , of his own , on such sufficing passages of nature , and be thanked for the addition . There is an instance of this kind in Warner , an old ...
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... things and events not to be found in nature ; as Homer's gods , and Shakspeare's witches , enchanted horses and ... thing , past or even future , as in the " starry Galileo " of Byron , and that ghastly foregone conclusion of the epithet ...
... things and events not to be found in nature ; as Homer's gods , and Shakspeare's witches , enchanted horses and ... thing , past or even future , as in the " starry Galileo " of Byron , and that ghastly foregone conclusion of the epithet ...
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