 | 1906 - 594 pages
...love which purifies emotion and the unbridled appetite which degrades it. ' A poem,' said Shelley, ' is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth.' There is no vision of the eternal in this reckless indulgence which lives upon excess and will die of surfeit.... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 256 pages
...contain in themf selves the elements of verse; being the echo of the I eternal music. Nor are those supreme poets, who 'have employed traditional forms...of things, than those who have omitted that form. Shakspeare, Dante, and Milton (to confine ourselves to modern writers) are philosophers of the very... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Italy - 1840 - 368 pages
...and contain in themselves the elements of verse; being the echo of the eternal music. Nor are those supreme poets, who have employed traditional forms...of things, than those who have omitted that form. Shakspeare, Dante, and Milton (to confine ourselves to modern writers) are philosophers of the very... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...Nor are those supreme poets, who have employed traditional forms of rhythm on account oFthe fprnTand action of their subjects, less capable of perceiving...truth of things, than those who have omitted that form Shakspeare, Dante, and Milton (to confine ourselves to modern writers) are philosophers of the very... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fore-edge painting - 1847 - 578 pages
...See the FUuin Labyrinth!, and the Essay on Detth particularly. of the eternal music. Nor are those supreme poets, who have employed traditional forms...less capable of perceiving and teaching the truth of tilings, than those who have omitted that form. Shakspeore, Dante, and Milton (to confine ourselves... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1922 - 784 pages
...poetry has no dependence, unless incidentally, on either duty or truth ; while Shelley declares that a poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth. Extraordinary, indeed, are the divergences of view exhibited by writers on this topic. Poetry is '... | |
 | 1915 - 826 pages
...useful volume, English Literary Criticism, published by Messrs. Blackie, price 3/6. Again Shelley says: A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth. . . . There is [he explainsj this difference between a story and a poem [by 'story' he means literal unimaginative... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 438 pages
...and contain in themselves the elements of verse ; being the echo of the eternal music. Nor are those supreme poets, who have employed traditional forms...less capable of perceiving and teaching the truth of 1 In the edition of 1852, measure for harmony. '* See the Filum Labyrinthi, and the Essay OJD Death... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Prose literature - 1880 - 444 pages
...and contain in themselves the elements of verse; l1eing the echo_ of the eternal music. Nor are those supreme poets, who have employed traditional forms...less capable of perceiving and teaching the truth of 1 Iu the edition of 1852, mearure for harmony. things, than those who have omitted that form. Shakespeare,... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 724 pages
...since; but I think now 'tis not to be found. 4208 Shakespeare : Love's Labor's Lost. Act i. Sc. 2. A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth. 4209 Shelley : A Defence of Poetry. I appeal to the greatest poets of the present day, whether it is... | |
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... and rhythmical, and contain in themselves the elements of verse; being the echo of the eternal music. Nor are those supreme poets, who have employed traditional forms of rhythm on account of the form and action of their subjects, less capable of perceiving... 
