 | Henry Evarts Gordon - 1911 - 332 lehte
...it I may improve my mind." But the real duty of the reader is suggested by these words: "Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds." There must be perfect reciprocity and fraternal feeling. The poet being human has his unhappy moments... | |
 | Francis Barton Gummere - 1911 - 348 lehte
...these things? They are of the very ritual of poetry; and if poetry were only what Shelley calls it, the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds, if all poetry were really dictated by the spirit of those moments, there would be no more to tell.... | |
 | 1912 - 748 lehte
...poetry is infinite. It is as the first acorn which contained all the oak potentiality." "Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds." "Poetry is a sword of lightning ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."... | |
 | Willingham Franklin Rawnsley - 1912 - 336 lehte
...knowledge " is far better and capable of more universal application than Shelley's dictum that " it is the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds." For at the most this is but half true and could hardly be applied to his own great poem the Cenci at... | |
 | Clarence Franklin Carroll, Sarah Catherine Brooks - 1912 - 296 lehte
...and the picturesqueness of his language are unsurpassed. His own poems best illustrate his definition of poetry as " the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds," and, among his shorter pieces, none is more exquisite and original than To... | |
 | Francis M. Connell - 1913 - 232 lehte
...uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the aid of reason. — JOHNSON. (6) Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds. — SHELLEY, " Defense of Poetry." (c) Poesis est imitatio actionum humanarum cum fictione. — JUVENCIUS,... | |
 | Edmund Arthur Helps - 1913 - 390 lehte
...that of those who learn " in suffering what they teach in song," and some of the poems are the results of " the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds." There is remarkably little of the modern restless pessimistic spirit, or of philosophic doubt, lack... | |
 | Brander Matthews - 1914 - 528 lehte
...themselves in explaining it. But they are not able to predict the next stroke of genius. Shelley defines poetry as the record of " the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds." When we are fortunate enough to happen in upon an author at one of these happy moments, then, as the... | |
 | 1914 - 528 lehte
...in explaining it. But they are not able to predict the next stroke of genius. Shelley defines poetiy as the record of " the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds." When we are fortunate enough to happen in upon an author at one of these happy moments, then, as the... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - 392 lehte
...with Shelley, that poetry is what redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man, and is the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds, then are we bound to agree that Wordsworth records too many moments that are not specially good or... | |
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THE PRINCE'S PROGRESS, AND OTHER POEMS. With two Designs by DG ROSSETTI. Fcap. 8vo. 6s. " Miss Rossetti' 's poems are of the kind which recalls Shelley's definition of Poetry as the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds. 
