Poetics: An Essay on PoetrySmith, Elder, and Company, 1852 - 294 páginas |
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... narrative poet commonly influences the mind ; but when his narrative is didactic , he affects the mind by the former , the conscious , method , as in Sir John Davies ' poem on the Immortality of the Soul , and in the Georgics of Virgil ...
... narrative poet commonly influences the mind ; but when his narrative is didactic , he affects the mind by the former , the conscious , method , as in Sir John Davies ' poem on the Immortality of the Soul , and in the Georgics of Virgil ...
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... narrative and a dramatic leg for each division ; so that magnifying poesy has the Epos and Tragedy , con- tented poesy has the Bucolic and the Pastoral Drama , while vilifying poesy has the Satire and the Comedy . Paulo majora canamus ...
... narrative and a dramatic leg for each division ; so that magnifying poesy has the Epos and Tragedy , con- tented poesy has the Bucolic and the Pastoral Drama , while vilifying poesy has the Satire and the Comedy . Paulo majora canamus ...
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... narrative poets of romantic times . Yet Milton roughcast his poem as a drama , and when giving it an- other , its present , shape , expressed , with an instinct which lesser men dare not gainsay , a fear lest he might be living in an ...
... narrative poets of romantic times . Yet Milton roughcast his poem as a drama , and when giving it an- other , its present , shape , expressed , with an instinct which lesser men dare not gainsay , a fear lest he might be living in an ...
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... narrative delivered by many mouths ; in other words , their classic drama is an epic drama . And here let it be observed , that while the history of the drama is the same in every country where it is al- lowed to run its course ...
... narrative delivered by many mouths ; in other words , their classic drama is an epic drama . And here let it be observed , that while the history of the drama is the same in every country where it is al- lowed to run its course ...
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... narrative ; delighting in the historical tenses , quite unlike the romantic drama , where if a narrative is to be delivered it is delivered in the present tense , and often , as in the well - known case of good Launcelot Gobbo , one of ...
... narrative ; delighting in the historical tenses , quite unlike the romantic drama , where if a narrative is to be delivered it is delivered in the present tense , and often , as in the well - known case of good Launcelot Gobbo , one of ...
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activity Æneid Aristotle artist Bacon beautiful believe belongs blank verse called chiefly Christian classical Clement of Rome cloth critics Divine doctrine doubt drama dramatic art dramatists Dugald Stewart E. S. DALLAS endeavours English epic Euripides Euroclydon expression fact faculty faith former Freedom genius give Greek happiness heart heaven Homer human idea Iliad imagery imagination imitative Immortality instinct Jeremy Collier JULIA KAVANAGH kinds of poesy language latter law of poetry least less look lyrical manner means metaphor metre mind modern narrative nature never object perhaps philosopher pleasure plurality poem poet poetic feeling post 8vo present prose reader reality reason regard remarkable rhyme romantic seen self-consciousness sense Shakespere simile simply Sir Philip Sidney song Sophocles soul speak spirit stanza tell theory things thought tion true truly truth uncon unconsciousness utterance whole words Wordsworth writing
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Página 144 - Of Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse...
Página 105 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 203 - Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs; and Nature gave a second groan; Sky lour'd, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original...
Página 187 - How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths.
Página 293 - Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist : notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Página 106 - A THING of beauty is a joy for ever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Página 145 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Página 54 - Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which attract, and the concealment of those which repel the imagination; but religion must be shown as it is; suppression and addition equally corrupt it; and such as it is, it is known already.
Página 144 - OF MAN'S first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, Heavenly Muse, that, on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of Chaos...