Poetics, an Essay on PoetrySmith, Elder, and Company, 1852 - 294 pages |
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... artists we have no- thing at present to do : that is a subject belonging pro- perly to the theory of poesy . Here we are to treat of unconsciousness as the last and highest law of poetry . To satisfy the ghost of Locke , let the ...
... artists we have no- thing at present to do : that is a subject belonging pro- perly to the theory of poesy . Here we are to treat of unconsciousness as the last and highest law of poetry . To satisfy the ghost of Locke , let the ...
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... artistic , and as satiric ; and none of these can be admitted into a poem without doing much harm . Take the didactic strain for instance . It is an ob- ject with poesy to direct the mind as well as to please . The mind may be directed ...
... artistic , and as satiric ; and none of these can be admitted into a poem without doing much harm . Take the didactic strain for instance . It is an ob- ject with poesy to direct the mind as well as to please . The mind may be directed ...
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... artist as such is also damaging to the poesy in which it appears . There are a hundred ways in which it may thus show itself . In the Lay of the Last Minstrel , for instance , we see the antiquarian memory of the poet ever and anon ...
... artist as such is also damaging to the poesy in which it appears . There are a hundred ways in which it may thus show itself . In the Lay of the Last Minstrel , for instance , we see the antiquarian memory of the poet ever and anon ...
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... artistic , so also by a satiric self - consciousness , poetry is weakened and wors- ened . Some persons , who are very nice in their poetic taste , will none of wit , whatsoever the quality . By their account , wit is very superficial ...
... artistic , so also by a satiric self - consciousness , poetry is weakened and wors- ened . Some persons , who are very nice in their poetic taste , will none of wit , whatsoever the quality . By their account , wit is very superficial ...
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... artistic , and the satiric , are dangerous to poesy ; but unbelief , another form of the same , and which might almost be regarded as a variety of the sa- tiric , is often quietly , if never broadly , asserted , to be in keeping with a ...
... artistic , and the satiric , are dangerous to poesy ; but unbelief , another form of the same , and which might almost be regarded as a variety of the sa- tiric , is often quietly , if never broadly , asserted , to be in keeping with a ...
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Page 144 - Of Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse...
Page 203 - Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs; and Nature gave a second groan; Sky lour'd, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original...
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Page 144 - OF MAN'S first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, Heavenly Muse, that, on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of Chaos...
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Page 34 - My slumbers — if I slumber — are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not : in my heart There is a vigil, and these eyes but close To look within ; and yet I live, and bear The aspect and the form of breathing men.
Page 37 - Of honourable gain; these fields, these hills Which were his living Being, even more Than his own blood — what could they less ? had laid Strong hold on his affections, were to him A pleasurable feeling of blind love, The pleasure which there is in life itself. On the other hand, in the poems which are pitched in a lower key, as the HARRY GILL...