 | John Dryden - 1899 - 222 pages
...Works. PERCIVAL CHUBB. NEW YORK, 25th February, 1899. INTRODUCTION I. DRYDEN'S IMPORTANCE " DBTDEN and Pope are not classics of our poetry ; they are classics of our prose." Such is Matthew Arnold's verdict upon these two famous writers. It is a verdict that would be disputed... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1901 - 628 pages
...not to be overcome . . .' or of ' O martyr souded in virginitee I' I answer : It has not and cannot have them ; it is the poetry of the builders of an...classics of our poetry, they are classics of our prose. Gray is our poetical classic of that literature and age ; the position of Gray is singular, and demands... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1901 - 630 pages
...else not to be overcome . . .' or of 'O martyr souded in virginiteeP I answer : It has not and cannot have them ; it is the poetry of the builders of an...verse, though they may in a certain sense be masters of xl the art of versification, Dryden and Pope are not classics of our poetry, they are classics of our... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 404 pages
...else not to be overcome . . . or of O martyr souded in virginitee ! I answer : It has not and cannot have them ; it is the poetry of the builders of an...classics of our poetry, they are classics of our prose. Gray is our poetical classic of that literature and age ; the position of Gray is singular, and demands... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1903 - 354 pages
...not to be overcome ...' or of Mi ' 0 martyr souded in virginitee !' I answer : It has not and cannot have them ; it is the poetry of the builders of an...masters of the art of versification. Dryden and Pope are uot 42 ESSAYS IN CRITICISM i classics of our poetry, they are classics of our prose. Gray is our poetical... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1905 - 362 pages
...else not to be overcome . or of ' 0 martyr souded in virginitee ! ' I answer : It has not and cannot have them ; it is the poetry of the builders of, an...certain sense be masters of the art of versification, Dry den and Pope are not i classics of our poetry, they are classics of_j>ur ('Gray1 is our poetical... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1905 - 354 pages
...not to be overcome . . . ' or of ' 0 martyr souded in virginitee ! ' I answer : It has not and cannot have them ; it is the poetry of the builders of an...certain sense be masters of the art of versification, Diyden and Pope are not r classics of our poetry, they are classics of our \ prose. Gra^js_j)ur_j)getical... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1905 - 374 pages
...answer : It has not and cannot have them ; it is the poetry of ^he_builders of an age of prose' ^ \y and reason. Though they may write in verse, though...certain sense be masters of the art of versification, Dry den and Pope are not V classics of our poetry, they are classics of our prose. Gray is our poetical... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1906 - 376 pages
...else not to be overcome ...' or of ' 0 martyr souded in virginitee !' I answer : It has not and cannot have them ; it is the poetry of the builders of an...are not classics of our poetry, they are classics of ou* prose. Gray is our poetical classic of that literature and age; the position of Gray is singular,... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - English literature - 1907 - 424 pages
...else not to be overcome . . ." or of "O martyr souded in virginitee!" I answer: It has not and cannot have them; it is the poetry of the builders of an...classics of our poetry, they are classics of our prose. Gray is our poetical classic of that literature and age; the position of Gray is singular, and demands... | |
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Absent thee from felicity awhile ..." or of "And what is else not to be overcome ..." or of "O martyr souded in virginitee!" I answer: It has not and cannot have them; it is the poetry of the builders of an age of prose and reason. Though they may write... 
