A Handbook of Literary Criticism: An Analysis of Literary Forms in Prose and Verse for English Students in Advanced Schools and Colleges and for Libraries and the General Reader |
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action Æneid ancient appears Aristotle art-content artist audience beauty biography Burke called Carlyle character Church Cicero classic composition Criticism Decameron Demosthenes dialogue drama Edmund Burke element emotion employed England English literature epic epic poetry essay Euripides example expression facts feeling fiction French genius George Eliot give Goethe Greek Hence hero historian Homer human hymns ideal ideas Iliad imagination imitation John kind language Latin letters literary art living lyric Macaulay manner Matthew Arnold melody memoirs ment method Milton mind modern Molière moral narrative nature Newman novel oration oratory pamphlet paragraph passion Petrarch philosophy Plato plays Plutarch poem poet poetic poetry political popular prose prose-form qualities Quintilian reader religious romance Saint Saint Paul scenes sense sentence Shakespeare sonnet Sophocles speaker speech story style sublime theme thought Thucydides tion tragedy truth verse words writing written wrote Xenophon
Popular passages
Page 399 - Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he cherishes and loves it in his solitude: the Poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
Page 17 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Page 381 - That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.
Page 398 - To this knowledge which all men carry about with them, and to these sympathies in which, without any other discipline than that of our daily life, we are fitted to take delight, the poet principally directs his attention.
Page 400 - I have said that Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity...
Page 409 - It transmutes all that it touches, and every form moving within the radiance of its presence is changed by wondrous sympathy to an incarnation of the spirit which it breathes: its secret alchemy turns to potable gold the poisonous waters which flow from death through life; it strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bare the naked and sleeping beauty, which is the spirit of its forms.
Page 557 - The grand work of literary genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis and discovery ; its gift 548 549 lies in the faculty of being happily inspired by a certain intellectual and spiritual atmosphere, by a certain order of ideas, when it finds itself in them...
Page 396 - He is a man speaking to men : a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind...
Page 226 - If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition.
Page 399 - Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge — it is as immortal as the heart of man. If the labours of Men of science should ever create any material revolution, direct or indirect, in our condition, and in the impressions which we habitually receive, the Poet will sleep then no more than at present...