With regard to poetry in general, I am convinced, the more I think of it, that he and all of us — Scott, Southey, Wordsworth, Moore, Campbell, I, — are all in the wrong, one as much as another; that we are upon a wrong revolutionary poetical system,... Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life - Page 277by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1830 - 512 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English letters - 1927 - 324 pages
...poetry in general, I am convinced, the more I think of it, that he and all of us — Scott, Southey, Wordsworth, Moore, Campbell, I, — are all in the...next generations will finally be of this opinion. I am the more confirmed in this by having lately gone over some of our classics, particularly Pope,... | |
| Jacob Johan van Rennes - 1927 - 186 pages
...general, I am convinced, the more I think of it, that he (ie Moore) and all of us — Scott, Southey, Wordsworth, Moore, Campbell, I, — are all in the...next generations will finally be of this opinion. I am the more confirmed in this by having lately gone over some of our classics, particularly Pope,... | |
| Jacob Johan van Rennes - 1927 - 194 pages
...general, I am convinced, the more I think of it, that he (ie Moore) and all of us — Scott, Southey, Wordsworth, Moore, Campbell, I, — are all in the...next generations will finally be of this opinion. I am the more confirmed in this by having lately gone over some of our classics, particularly Pope,... | |
| Ralph Tyler Flewelling - Personalism - 1926 - 654 pages
...to poetry in general, I am convinced, the more I think of it, that ... all of us — Scott, Southey, Wordsworth, Moore, Campbell, I — are all in the...revolutionary poetical system, or systems, not worth a thing in itself, and from which none but Rogers and Crabbe are free; and that the present and the next... | |
| René Wellek - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 472 pages
...the only thing remembered of his criticism. He tells us, "we are upon a wrong revolutionary poetic system or systems, not worth a damn in itself, and from which none but Rogers and Crabbe are free." "I have been amongst the builders of this Babel," and "I am ashamed of it." The highest of all poetry... | |
| Carol G. Thomas - History - 1988 - 220 pages
...1817: "With regard to poetry in general, I am convinced, the more I think of it, that ... all of us ... are ... upon a wrong revolutionary poetical system, or systems, not worth a damn in itself."50 As if he did not notice that he provided definitions of his own attitude, Nietzsche stigmatized... | |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Philosophy - 1996 - 324 pages
...general, I am convinced, the more I think of it, that he (Moore) and all of us — Scott, Southey, Wordsworth, Moore, Campbell, I — are all in the...next generations will finally be of this opinion." 38. Ibid., 5:323, July 14, 1821: "Shakespeare's the worst model, if a great poet." about it was richly... | |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Gary Handwerk - Philosophy - 2000 - 404 pages
...poetry in general I am convinced the more i think of it — that he and all of us — Scott — Southey —Wordsworth — Moore — Campbell — I — are...system— or systems— not worth a damn in itself — & from which none but Rogers and Crabbe are free— and that the present & next generations will... | |
| Steven P. Sondrup, Virgil Nemoianu, Gerald Gillespie - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 500 pages
...Austrian spy in Venice, seems another likely British romantic (Byron 4: 463). "We are," he writes in 1817. "upon a wrong revolutionary poetical system — or systems — not worth a damn in itself — & from which none but Rogers and Crabbe are free" (4: 169); intriguing, since Shelley for his part... | |
| JOHN RUSKIN - 1886 - 514 pages
...general, I am convinced, the more I think of it, that he (Moore), and all of us — Scott, Southey, Wordsworth, Moore, Campbell, I, — are all in the...next generations will finally be of this opinion. I am the more confirmed in this by having lately gone over some of our classics, particularly Pope,... | |
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