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... least a clear sight of him now , and we are able to decide whether we will accept Mr Eliot's description of him . Let us see . We have no difficulty in agreeing that historical criticism of literature is a kind apart . The historical ...
... least a clear sight of him now , and we are able to decide whether we will accept Mr Eliot's description of him . Let us see . We have no difficulty in agreeing that historical criticism of literature is a kind apart . The historical ...
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... least a vision and a sense of it . He alone will know that the principle he has to elucidate and apply is living , organic . It is indeed the very principle of artistic creation itself . Therefore he will approach what claims to be a ...
... least a vision and a sense of it . He alone will know that the principle he has to elucidate and apply is living , organic . It is indeed the very principle of artistic creation itself . Therefore he will approach what claims to be a ...
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... least must be good right , to have been pre - eminent in his century as a political philosopher , a novelist , and a theorist of education . Yet to himself he is no more than the painter of nature and the historian of the human heart ...
... least must be good right , to have been pre - eminent in his century as a political philosopher , a novelist , and a theorist of education . Yet to himself he is no more than the painter of nature and the historian of the human heart ...
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... least of the power to create the myth which is the poet's essential means of triangulat- ing the unknown of his emotion . Had he lived to perfect himself in the use of this instrument , he might have been a great poet indeed . ' The ...
... least of the power to create the myth which is the poet's essential means of triangulat- ing the unknown of his emotion . Had he lived to perfect himself in the use of this instrument , he might have been a great poet indeed . ' The ...
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... least by Mr Yeats . To this , in itself , we make no demur . The poet , if he is a true poet , is driven to approach the highest reality he can apprehend . He cannot trans- cribe it simply because he does not possess the 1 The Wild ...
... least by Mr Yeats . To this , in itself , we make no demur . The poet , if he is a true poet , is driven to approach the highest reality he can apprehend . He cannot trans- cribe it simply because he does not possess the 1 The Wild ...
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Page 62 - I caught this morning morning's minion, kingdom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing, As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding Stirred for a bird,— the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!
Page 150 - purge off, Benign, if so it please thee, my mind's film.' 'None can usurp this height,' returned that shade, 'But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest.
Page 59 - I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night! what sights you, heart, saw; ways you went! And more must, in yet longer light's delay.
Page 69 - Hyperion" — there were too many Miltonic inversions in it — Miltonic verse cannot be written but in an artful, or, rather, artist's humour. I wish to give myself up to other sensations. English ought to be kept up.
Page 189 - A second promise of genius is the choice of subjects very remote from the private interests and circumstances of the writer himself. At least I have found that where the subject is taken immediately from the author's personal sensations and experiences, the excellence of a particular poem is but an equivocal mark, and often a fallacious pledge, of genuine poetic power.
Page 45 - I KNOW that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above ; Those that I fight I do not hate, Those that I guard I do not love ; My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan's poor, No likely end could bring them loss Or leave them happier than before. Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight...
Page 75 - By an immortal sickness which kills not ; It works a constant change, which happy death Can put no end to ; deathwards progressing To no death...
Page 125 - We stood by a pond that winter day, And the sun was white, as though chidden of God, And a few leaves lay on the starving sod; — They had fallen from an ash, and were gray.
Page 58 - But as air, melody, is what strikes me most of all in music and design in painting, so design, pattern or what I am in the habit of calling 'inscape' is what I above all aim at in poetry. Now it is the virtue of design, pattern, or inscape to be distinctive and it is the vice of distinctiveness to become queer. This vice I cannot have escaped.
Page 75 - The lily and the snow ; and beyond these I must not think now, though I saw that face. But for her eyes I should have fled away ; They held me back with a benignant light, Soft, mitigated by divinest lids Half-clos'd, and visionless entire they seem'd Of all external things...