 | Jay Broadus Hubbell, John Owen Beaty - 1923 - 566 lehte
...calls it "the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge." Shelley's definition is suggestive: "Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds." Poe's definition is "the rhythmical creation of Beauty" in words. The language of poetry, said Milton,... | |
 | John Morley - 1923 - 448 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... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 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... | |
 | George Sprau - 1925 - 370 lehte
...himself those moods of ecstasy that men of all time have tried so hard to express. Shelley defines poetry as the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. It follows as a corollary that poetry or prose so inspired is the most potent... | |
 | Francis Meehan - 1928 - 764 lehte
...more generous and wise, and lift them out of the dull vapors of the little world of self. Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds. . . . Poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world. ... It creates anew... | |
 | 1930 - 810 lehte
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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. 
