 | 1863 - 986 pages
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 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1875 - 468 pages
...friend, M. Trebutien, and preceded by a notice of GueVin by the first of living critics, M. Sainte-Beuve. The grand power of poetry is its interpretative power...wonderfully full, new, and intimate sense of them, <C and of our relations with them. When this sense is awakened in us, as to objects without us, we... | |
 | Shorthand - 1879 - 458 pages
..."The Power of Poetry." — The following is the " key" to the arlicle in phonography ou page 201 : The grand power of poetry is its interpretative power...explanation of the mystery of the universe, but the power of но dealing with things as to awaken in ns a wonderfully full, new, and intimate кепке, of them,... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - Nature in literature - 1877 - 294 pages
...possible form, Mr. Arnold will, I know, forgive me if I quote at length his own words. He says : — " The grand power of Poetry is its interpretative power, by which I mean, not the power of drawing out in black and white an explanation of the mystery of the Universe, but the... | |
 | James Willcox Alsop - 1879 - 40 pages
...de Guerin, whose genius as a poet lay, Mr. Arnold thinks, in his power of interpreting Nature. ' " The grand power of poetry is its interpretative power...dealing with things as to awaken in us a wonderfully fall, new, and intimate sense of them, and of our relations with them. When this sense is awakened... | |
 | 1883 - 610 pages
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 | George Willis Cooke - Art - 1886 - 422 pages
...human passions, emotions, language." Matthew Arnold truly says that poetry does not consist in " the power of drawing out in black and white an explanation...new, and intimate sense of them, and of our relations to them ; when this sense is awakened in us as to objects without us, we feel ourselves to be in contact... | |
 | English periodicals - 1886 - 646 pages
...a universe whose component parts are weighed and measured and analysed. For this use of poetry " in so dealing with things as to awaken in us a wonderfully...intimate sense of them, and of our relations with them, appealing to the whole man," as science does, " and not to a single faculty," we are indebted to Wordsworth.... | |
 | Channing Auxiliary (San Francisco) - Anthologies - 1892 - 136 pages
...Homeward brought the oxen strong; A second crop thine acres yield, Which I gather in a song. — Emerson. THE grand power of poetry is its interpretative power...dealing with things as to awaken in us a wonderfully lull, new, and intimate sense of them and of our relations with them. When this sense is awakened in... | |
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The grand power of poetry is its interpretative power ; by which I mean, not a power of drawing out in black and white an explanation of the mystery of the universe, but the power of so dealing with things as to awaken in us a wonderfully full, new, and... 
