... the grand work of literary genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis and discovery ; its gift lies in the faculty of being happily inspired by a certain intellectual and spiritual atmosphere, by a certain order of ideas, when it... Essays in Criticism - Page 6by Matthew Arnold - 1875 - 440 pagesFull view - About this book
| Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1914 - 502 pages
...: | the grand work of literaryi/ ^ genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis A and discovery > its gift lies in the faculty of being...effective and attractive combinations, — making 10 beautiful works with them, in short. But it must have the atmosphere, it must find itself amidst... | |
| William Lawrence Schroeder - Art - 1916 - 288 pages
...Arnold, in The Function of Criticism, say that ' the grand work of literary genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis and discovery ; its...presenting them in the most effective and attractive combination — making beautiful works with them, in short.' For it is the work of creative genius... | |
| Frank Aydelotte - English language - 1916 - 444 pages
...is rather the business of the philosopher. The grand work of literary genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis and discovery ; its...itself in them ; of dealing divinely with these ideas, preseating them in the most effective and attractive combinations, — making beautiful works with... | |
| Neodesha, Kansas. Board of education - 1918 - 48 pages
...and bard. Mathew Arnold says: "The grand work of a literary genius consists in the faculty of being inspired by a certain intellectual and spiritual atmosphere, by a certain order of ideas — and of dealing divinely with these ideas " To help the child interpret the world of thought and... | |
| Robert Emmons Rogers - English literature - 1921 - 352 pages
...is rather the business of the philosopher; the grand work of literary genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis and discovery; its...beautiful works with them, in short. But it must have the atmosphere, it must find itself amidst the order of ideas, in order to work freely; and these it is... | |
| George Nauman Shuster - American literature - 1922 - 402 pages
...Nevertheless, to revert once more to the keen statement of Matthew Arnold, the gift of literary genius "lies in the faculty of being happily inspired by a certain intellectual and spiritual atmosphere." Art is always, secondarily at least, the product of an artistic society. The masters of mediaeval beauty... | |
| Delmar Gross Cooke - American literature - 1922 - 306 pages
...Arnold speaks so beautifully and so confidently, ideas with which the creative genius may deal divinely, "presenting them in the most effective and attractive combinations, making beautiful works with them," 3 criticism, we find, "has condemned whatever was, from time to time, fresh and vital in literature;... | |
| Sir Henry John Newbolt - English literature - 1922 - 1032 pages
...is rather the business of the philosopher; the grand work of literary genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis and discovery; its gift lies in the faculty cf being happily inspired by a certain intellectual and spiritu.il atmosphere, by a certain order of... | |
| William Basil Worsfold - Criticism - 1923 - 276 pages
...which is helpful to the artist is synthetic. ' The grand work of literary genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis and discovery ; its...presenting them in the most effective and attractive combinatious — making beautiful works with them, in short.' 2 • And, therefore, the present age... | |
| Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1962 - 598 pages
...is rather the business of the philosopher. The grand work of litera1y genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis and discovery; its...certain intellectual and spiritual atmosphere, by 5 a certain order of ideas, when it finds itself in them; of dealing divinely with these ideas, presenting... | |
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