Critical Essays of the Early Nineteenth CenturyRaymond Macdonald Alden |
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... NATURE OF POETRY The most important aspects of the new doctrine of poetry may be best understood by comparing it with that of the preceding age . In general , the idea of poetry held by criticism in the seventeenth and eighteenth ...
... NATURE OF POETRY The most important aspects of the new doctrine of poetry may be best understood by comparing it with that of the preceding age . In general , the idea of poetry held by criticism in the seventeenth and eighteenth ...
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... nature being perceived and in- terpreted by the poet as his most characteristic function . The student of this subject should lay beside the prose discussions of it Wordsworth's poetized account in The Prelude ; for example , the ...
... nature being perceived and in- terpreted by the poet as his most characteristic function . The student of this subject should lay beside the prose discussions of it Wordsworth's poetized account in The Prelude ; for example , the ...
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... nature , as commonly understood by the passage , which Hazlitt is thinking of ; the illus- trations which he seeks make it clear that it is the power of poetry to bring all nature , for the moment , within the compass and thrill of some ...
... nature , as commonly understood by the passage , which Hazlitt is thinking of ; the illus- trations which he seeks make it clear that it is the power of poetry to bring all nature , for the moment , within the compass and thrill of some ...
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... nature , not formal , like those made by man.17 An organism represents the working out of prin- ciples of form determined by its inner nature . One does not gaze upon a sea - monster and say , " This very imper- fectly represents my ...
... nature , not formal , like those made by man.17 An organism represents the working out of prin- ciples of form determined by its inner nature . One does not gaze upon a sea - monster and say , " This very imper- fectly represents my ...
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... nature itself , infallible , unfathomable , transcendent . A natural corollary was the view of Shakespeare's char- acters as not like those of ordinary creative artists , but as possessed of a kind of independent and full - rounded ex ...
... nature itself , infallible , unfathomable , transcendent . A natural corollary was the view of Shakespeare's char- acters as not like those of ordinary creative artists , but as possessed of a kind of independent and full - rounded ex ...
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Page 216 - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Page 212 - tis later, sir. Ban. Hold, take my sword. There's husbandry in heaven, Their candles are all out. Take thee that too. A heavy summons lies like lead upon me, And yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers, Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature Gives way to in repose!
Page 229 - Ingratitude ! thou marble-hearted fiend, More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child Than the sea-monster ! Alb.
Page 13 - Aristotle, I have been told, has said, that Poetry is the most philosophic of all writing : it is so : its object is truth^ not individual and local, but general, and operative ; not standing upon external testimony, but carried alive into the heart by passion...
Page 384 - The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Page 222 - The Lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic. Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Page 3 - ... a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.
Page 104 - DURING the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination.
Page 162 - Made for our searching : yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon For simple sheep ; and such are daffodils With the green world they live in...
Page 233 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.