The Makers of English PoetryKennikat Press, 1968 - 404 pages |
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... patriotism was of that diviner kind which founds itself on principles of universal truth and right- eousness . It was no splendid prejudice , no insularity of thought , no mere sentimental love of country : it gath- ered in its embrace ...
... patriotism was of that diviner kind which founds itself on principles of universal truth and right- eousness . It was no splendid prejudice , no insularity of thought , no mere sentimental love of country : it gath- ered in its embrace ...
Page 143
... patriotism of Wordsworth is not violent or frenzied ; it is comparatively restrained ; but , for that very reason , in the moments of its highest utterance there is a depth and force in it such as few writers display . When habitually ...
... patriotism of Wordsworth is not violent or frenzied ; it is comparatively restrained ; but , for that very reason , in the moments of its highest utterance there is a depth and force in it such as few writers display . When habitually ...
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... patriotism . It is the cool and scholastic patriotism of the moralist , not the ardent patriotism of the man standing in the full stream of action and moving with it . And for this reason it lacks vigour , and it does not inspire There ...
... patriotism . It is the cool and scholastic patriotism of the moralist , not the ardent patriotism of the man standing in the full stream of action and moving with it . And for this reason it lacks vigour , and it does not inspire There ...
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Arnold Arthur Hallam artistic ballad beauty breathe Browning Browning's Burns Byron calm charm Coleridge colour criticism death deep delight despair Divine dreams English poetry excellence expression exquisite F. W. H. Myers faith fame fascination feel force genius glory Guinevere Harriet Martineau heart Hood hope human humour imagination impulse inspiration intellectual intensity John Keats John of Tours Keats light lines literary literature lived Matthew Arnold mediæval melody Memoriam memory mind moral Nature ness never noble noblest Paracelsus passion pathetic patriotism perfect phrase picture poem poet poetic prose purity qualities readers religious reverence Robert Browning Rossetti Scott seems sense shadow Shelley Shelley's simplicity song Sordello sorrow soul Southey spirit splendour style sweetness Swinburne sympathy Tennyson thee theme things Thomas Hood thou thought tion touch true truth utter verse vision voice William Morris woman words Wordsworth write written wrote