The Greater Victorian PoetsS. Sonnenschein and Company, 1895 - 332 pages |
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... principle of criticism here adopted is practically the same as that which Matthew Arnold laid down , and which can be quite easily dissociated from his questionable definition of poetry . Though poets do not , properly speaking ...
... principle of criticism here adopted is practically the same as that which Matthew Arnold laid down , and which can be quite easily dissociated from his questionable definition of poetry . Though poets do not , properly speaking ...
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... principle , " yet not a drama . There are several interlocutors , but there is not that rapid march of events , nor is there to any considerable degree that influence of mind upon mind , that development of the catastrophe out of the ...
... principle , " yet not a drama . There are several interlocutors , but there is not that rapid march of events , nor is there to any considerable degree that influence of mind upon mind , that development of the catastrophe out of the ...
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... principles , Love and Knowledge . The first is embodied in the poet Aprile , the second in the devotee of science , Paracelsus . The pursuit of either of these principles alone is , in Browning's view , a fatal error . Paracelsus ...
... principles , Love and Knowledge . The first is embodied in the poet Aprile , the second in the devotee of science , Paracelsus . The pursuit of either of these principles alone is , in Browning's view , a fatal error . Paracelsus ...
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... principle that poetry must be true , but he sometimes forgot that it is equally bound to be beautiful . In the thought of Sordello , so far as it is possible to penetrate it ( and the writer is far from professing to have done so com ...
... principle that poetry must be true , but he sometimes forgot that it is equally bound to be beautiful . In the thought of Sordello , so far as it is possible to penetrate it ( and the writer is far from professing to have done so com ...
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... principles underlying his art is characteristic of the man . Tennyson is the artist without much troubling himself to ask why . To take the artistic view of life is as natural to him as it is to breathe . His two poems , The Poet and ...
... principles underlying his art is characteristic of the man . Tennyson is the artist without much troubling himself to ask why . To take the artistic view of life is as natural to him as it is to breathe . His two poems , The Poet and ...
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Page 322 - Behold, we know not anything ; I can but trust that good shall fall At last — far off— at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream : but what am I ? An infant crying in the night : An infant crying for the light : And with no language but a cry.
Page 320 - Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho...
Page 240 - Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Page 19 - And in poetry, no less than in life, he is * a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.
Page 106 - And bade me creep past. No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements...
Page 9 - I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! As tho
Page 301 - Tis the weakness in strength, that I cry for! my flesh, that I seek In the Godhead! I seek and I find it. O Saul, it shall be A Face like my face that receives thee; a Man like to me, Thou shalt love and be loved by, for ever: a Hand like this hand Shall throw open the gates of new life to thee! See the Christ stand!
Page 323 - Thou makest thine appeal to me : I bring to life, I bring to death : The spirit does but mean the breath: I know no more.
Page 66 - OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
Page 218 - Oh, the wild joys of living ! the leaping from rock up to rock, The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair.