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The notes and questions are analytical rather than explanatory of the text ;
bracketed footnotes in the shape of ... With them , however , the historical point of
view , the desire to show criticism as something of a growth , complicates the
question ...
The notes and questions are analytical rather than explanatory of the text ;
bracketed footnotes in the shape of ... With them , however , the historical point of
view , the desire to show criticism as something of a growth , complicates the
question ...
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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY : A Defence of Poetry 307 NOTES AND QUESTIONS
ON THE PRECEDING SELECTIONS 337 LIST OF BOOKS REFERRED TO IN
THE INTRODUCTION AND THE NOTES 356 INDEX 361 202 . 220 . 269 • .
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY : A Defence of Poetry 307 NOTES AND QUESTIONS
ON THE PRECEDING SELECTIONS 337 LIST OF BOOKS REFERRED TO IN
THE INTRODUCTION AND THE NOTES 356 INDEX 361 202 . 220 . 269 • .
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Over such questions much discussion naturally arises . Mr. Chesterton ' would
undoubtedly say that they are part and parcel of the common sense , and are
therefore understood by everybody , without thinking . They are like our own
names ...
Over such questions much discussion naturally arises . Mr. Chesterton ' would
undoubtedly say that they are part and parcel of the common sense , and are
therefore understood by everybody , without thinking . They are like our own
names ...
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... a chapter ( 20 ) entitled Shakespeare's Posthumous Reputation . Questions of
influence , when treated as matters of fact , and other such topics come under this
head . But one who looks into the matter will be amazed to see how little critical ...
... a chapter ( 20 ) entitled Shakespeare's Posthumous Reputation . Questions of
influence , when treated as matters of fact , and other such topics come under this
head . But one who looks into the matter will be amazed to see how little critical ...
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Whole rivulets of ink , " as Swift would say , have been expended in the yet
unsettled question of what Shakespeare meant Hamlet to mean ; and an equally
prolific study could be made of the different interpretations that have been put on
...
Whole rivulets of ink , " as Swift would say , have been expended in the yet
unsettled question of what Shakespeare meant Hamlet to mean ; and an equally
prolific study could be made of the different interpretations that have been put on
...
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acting admiration appears artistic attempt beauty become better called character Chaucer common course criticism distinction effect English equal essay estimate example excellent existence expression eyes fact faculty feeling genius give given hand human idea imagination important impression interest kind language least less light lines literary literature living look manner matter means mind moral nature never novel object observation once opinion original pass passion perfect perhaps picture piece pleasure Poe's poem poet poetic poetry present principle produced prose question reader reason regard relation remarkable represented seems sense Shakespeare sort soul sound speak spirit story style Swift things thought tion true truth turn universal verse whole writing
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Página 289 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Página 299 - ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order...
Página 228 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Página 304 - And peace proclaims olives of endless age. Now with the drops of this most balmy time My love looks fresh, and Death to me subscribes, Since, spite of him, I'll live in this poor rhyme, While he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes: And thou in this shalt find thy monument, When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent.
Página 146 - Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow (This — all this — was in the olden Time long ago) And every gentle air that dallied, In that sweet day, Along the ramparts plumed and pallid, A winged odor went away.
Página 290 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Página 280 - But enough of this : there is such a variety of game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.
Página 266 - Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. Not the least obeisance made he; not...
Página 145 - TO HELEN. Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
Página 285 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Información bibliográfica
| Título | Specimens of Modern English Literary Criticism |
| Editor | William Tenney Brewster |
| Compilado por | William Tenney Brewster |
| Edición | reimpresa |
| Editor | Macmillan, 1907 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 6 Nov. 2007 |
| Largo | 379 páginas |
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