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... standard of art , and defy the rules of tradition and convention , than in the inflexibility of critics such as Gifford , who are inclined to yield to prescription an almost passive obedience . My intention has been to trace ...
... standard of art , and defy the rules of tradition and convention , than in the inflexibility of critics such as Gifford , who are inclined to yield to prescription an almost passive obedience . My intention has been to trace ...
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... with deference , but with confidence , that the ethical standard of judg- ment which Mr. Arnold proposes as the test of the highest poetry is narrow and arbi- L 6 trary ; that in criticising any poet , ESSAY I 13 IN ENGLISH LITERATURE.
... with deference , but with confidence , that the ethical standard of judg- ment which Mr. Arnold proposes as the test of the highest poetry is narrow and arbi- L 6 trary ; that in criticising any poet , ESSAY I 13 IN ENGLISH LITERATURE.
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... standard of taste . When any society has passed from the stage of creation into that of criticism , parties develop themselves as naturally in art as they do in politics ; and all critics , con- sciously or unconsciously arraying ...
... standard of taste . When any society has passed from the stage of creation into that of criticism , parties develop themselves as naturally in art as they do in politics ; and all critics , con- sciously or unconsciously arraying ...
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... standard rank of any poet is simply his capacity for producing lasting pleasure by the metrical expression of thought , of whatever kind it may be ; and therefore Horace , and Dryden , and Pope , have as good a title to be considered ...
... standard rank of any poet is simply his capacity for producing lasting pleasure by the metrical expression of thought , of whatever kind it may be ; and therefore Horace , and Dryden , and Pope , have as good a title to be considered ...
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... standard poets pro- duce pleasure , is it not possible that on this occasion you have been employing your imagina- tion improperly ? ' Wordsworth seems to have thought that a poet could always write poetically by the mere exercise of ...
... standard poets pro- duce pleasure , is it not possible that on this occasion you have been employing your imagina- tion improperly ? ' Wordsworth seems to have thought that a poet could always write poetically by the mere exercise of ...
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Page 149 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear...
Page 161 - The remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist, or mineralogist, will be as proper objects of the poet's art as any upon which it can be employed, if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of these respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings.
Page 182 - O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Page 133 - My days are in the yellow leaf ; The flowers and fruits of love are gone ; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone...
Page 86 - The principal object, then, proposed in these poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men...
Page 51 - Right, it has been the uniform policy of our Constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity...
Page 79 - In the one the incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural ; and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions as would naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real.
Page 98 - Perennially — beneath whose sable roof Of boughs, as if for festal purpose decked With unrejoicing berries — ghostly Shapes May meet at noontide ; Fear and trembling Hope, Silence and Foresight ; Death the Skeleton, And Time the Shadow...
Page 168 - Midway the smooth and perilous slope reclined, Save when your own imperious branches swinging, Have made a solemn music of the wind! Where, like a man beloved of God, Through glooms, which never woodman trod...
Page 92 - Suffices me, — her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. " The dragon's wing, the magic ring, I shall not covet for my dower, If I along that lowly way With sympathetic heart may stray, And with a soul of power.