| David Citino - 2003 - 194 lehte
...feel by a society that fears the artist or feels nothing for art. Shelley's statement that "Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds" leaves me puzzled. The sensibility that created "Ozymandias" or "Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near... | |
| Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - 160 lehte
...those given by several poets : 'the utterance of emotion remembered in tranquillity' (Wordsworth) ; 'the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds ' (Shelley) ; poetry must be 'simple, sensuous3, and passionate' (Milton). All these definitions endeavour... | |
| 1875 - 732 lehte
...with them, sorrows and perils, equally unknown to the majority of men. Shelley defines poetry to be " the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest lives." But was Shelley's life either very good or very happy ? Father Faber says : " Apart from Religion,... | |
| National Education Association of the United States - 1895 - 1100 lehte
...regarded as the profound and beautiful application of ideas to life, or the sane and beautiful expression of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds, or the proxiinately perfect expi-ession of a proximately perfect human soul; whether it is memory in... | |
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