Prefaces and Essays on Poetry: With a Letter to Lady BeaumontD. C. Heath & Company, 1892 - 120 páginas |
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... tion of the poet's works . I cannot see how an essay supple- mentary to the preface of 1815 can precede the preface . I am very grateful for permission to associate this edition of the Prefaces with the name of one who has seen with ...
... tion of the poet's works . I cannot see how an essay supple- mentary to the preface of 1815 can precede the preface . I am very grateful for permission to associate this edition of the Prefaces with the name of one who has seen with ...
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... tion , and my ideas are expressed in language fitted to their respective importance . Something must have been 10 gained by this practice , as it is friendly to one property of all good poetry , namely , good sense : but it has ...
... tion , and my ideas are expressed in language fitted to their respective importance . Something must have been 10 gained by this practice , as it is friendly to one property of all good poetry , namely , good sense : but it has ...
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... tion of Poetry and Prose , instead of the more philosophical one of Poetry and Matter of Fact , or Science . The only strict antithesis to Prose is Metre ; nor is this , in truth , a strict antithesis , because lines and passages of ...
... tion of Poetry and Prose , instead of the more philosophical one of Poetry and Matter of Fact , or Science . The only strict antithesis to Prose is Metre ; nor is this , in truth , a strict antithesis , because lines and passages of ...
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... tion only , namely , the necessity of giving immediate pleasure to a human Being possessed of that information which may be expected from him , not as a lawyer , a 1 physician , a mariner , an astronomer , or a natural philoso- pher ...
... tion only , namely , the necessity of giving immediate pleasure to a human Being possessed of that information which may be expected from him , not as a lawyer , a 1 physician , a mariner , an astronomer , or a natural philoso- pher ...
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... tion which subsists upon ignorance , and that pleasure which arises from hearing what we do not understand , the Poet must descend from this supposed height ; and , in order to excite rational sympathy , he must express himself as other ...
... tion which subsists upon ignorance , and that pleasure which arises from hearing what we do not understand , the Poet must descend from this supposed height ; and , in order to excite rational sympathy , he must express himself as other ...
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Términos y frases comunes
admiration appear Aristotle Aristotle's Poetics Arnold Aspects of Poetry Author beauty Biographia Literaria character chiefly Coleorton Coleridge composition Defence of Poesy Defense of Poetry degree delight Dowden Edinburgh Review edition effect English Essays in Criticism excite exertion exist expression eyes faculty Fancy feelings Gay Science genius genuine heart Homer human nature ideas images Imagination imitation judgment knowledge labour LADY BEAUMONT less Literary literature Lyrical Ballads Macmillan manner Matthew Arnold metre Milton mind nation never objects opinion original Ossian Paradise Lost passages passion pathetic perceived persons pleasure poems Poet Poet's poetic diction Pope Preface present produced prose Reader reason says sensibility sentiment Shairp Shakspeare Shelley Sidney sion Sir Henry Taylor Sonnets soul speak species spirit STOPFORD BROOKE style supposed sympathy taste things thoughts tion true truth Vere verse volumes words Wordsworth Wordsworth's poetry worthy writing youth
Pasajes populares
Página 112 - Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Página 37 - Go to the ant, thou sluggard ; Consider her ways, and be wise : Which having no guide, Overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, And gathereth her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep ? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep : So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.
Página 104 - A poem is that species of composition which is opposed to works of science, by proposing for its immediate object pleasure, not truth; and from all other species (having this object in common with it) it is discriminated by proposing to itself such delight from the whole as is compatible with a distinct gratification from each component part.
Página 19 - 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...
Página 18 - Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science.
Página 18 - In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs : in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed; the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.
Página vii - He too upon a wintry clime Had fallen — on this iron time Of doubts, disputes, distractions, fears. He found us when the age had bound Our souls in its benumbing round ; He spoke, and loosed our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth...
Página 50 - As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of an eminence ; Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seems a thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself...
Página 95 - I trust is their destiny ? — to console the afflicted; to add sunshine to daylight, by making the happy happier ; to teach the young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, and feel, and, therefore, to become more actively and securely virtuous...
Página 1 - It was published, as an experiment, which, I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation...