Principles of Literary CriticismK. Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1928 - 298 páginas Donated by Sydney Harris. |
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A. C. Bradley activity actual æsthetic appear arise Aristotle artist attitudes Beauty become behaviour belief C. D. BROAD C. K. OGDEN Chapter character Clive Bell Coleridge colour communication complex confusion connection consciousness consider course critical theory criticism definite degree depends difficult discussion doctrine effects elements emotion example explain fact feeling further G. E. MOORE human I. A. RICHARDS imagery images imagination important impulses individual instance interpretation involved judgment kind less matter means mental event merely metre mind moral nature normal object onomatopoeia organisation peculiar perhaps perience persons picture pleasure poem poet poetic experience poetry possible present problem psychology reader reading reasons recognised reference relations remarks response rhythm scientific sensations sense sensory sound stimuli systematisation theory of value things thought tion Tragedy true truth usually valuable varied visual W. H. R. RIVERS whole words
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Página 242 - The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other, according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone, and spirit of unity that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination.
Página 293 - ... weevil Delay? De Bailhache, Fresca, Mrs. Cammel, whirled Beyond the circuit of the shuddering Bear In fractured atoms. Gull against the wind, in the windy straits Of Belle Isle, or running on the Horn, White feathers in the snow, the Gulf claims, And an old man driven by the Trades To a sleepy corner. Tenants of the house, Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season.
Página 257 - Aristotle, I have been told, has said, that Poetry is the most philosophic of all writing : it is so : its object is truth, not individual and local, but general, and operative ; not standing upon external testimony, but carried alive into the heart by passion...
Página 69 - Fear and trembling Hope, Silence and Foresight; Death the Skeleton And Time the Shadow ; — there to celebrate, As in a natural temple scattered o'er With altars undisturbed of mossy stone, United worship ; or in mute repose To lie, and listen to the mountain flood Murmuring from Glaramara's inmost caves.
Página 143 - As far as metre acts in and for itself, it tends to increase the vivacity and susceptibility both of the general feelings and of the attention. This effect it produces by the continued excitement of surprise, and by the quick reciprocations of curiosity, still gratified and still re-excited, which are too slight, indeed, to be at any one moment objects of distinct consciousness, yet become considerable in their aggregate influence. As a medicated atmosphere, or as wine, during animated conversation,...
Página 258 - In the objects of nature are presented, as in a mirror, all the possible elements, steps, and processes of intellect antecedent to consciousness, and therefore to the full development of the intelligential act; and man's mind is the very focus of all the rays of intellect which are scattered throughout the images of nature.
Página 216 - Was like the vapour dim Which the orient planet animates with light; Hell, Sin, and Slavery came, Like bloodhounds mild and tame, Nor preyed until their lord had taken flight. The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set ; While blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon The cross leads generations on.
Página 246 - Tragedy is only possible to a mind which is for the moment agnostic or Manichean. The least touch of any theology which has a compensating Heaven to offer the tragic hero is fatal.
Página 32 - The arts are our storehouse of recorded values. They spring from and perpetuate hours in the lives of exceptional people, when their control and command of experience is at its highest, hours when the varying possibilities of existence are most clearly seen and the different activities which may arise are most exquisitely reconciled, hours when habitual narrowness of interests or confused bewilderment are replaced by an intricately wrought composure.
Página 44 - I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine. Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise if it must, these things are important not because a high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because they are useful.