...religion, also. In his essay on "The Study of Poetry" he justifies this identification as follows: "The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...accredited dogma which is not shown to be questionable, jiot a received tradition which does not threaten to dissolve. Our religion has materialized itself...

...reason for living. Matthew Arnold points to the unsettled condition of men's minds when he says, " There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited...which does not threaten to dissolve. Our religion has realised itself in the supposed fact, and now the fact is failing it." God the Creator and the Redeemer...

...Matthew Arnold, descendant of the most unsparing of believers, the son of Winchester and Oxford : " There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited...dissolve. Our religion has materialised itself in the supposed fact, and now the fact is failing it." It was easy to reproach us with sunless creeds and...

...glacier. We are not likely to underrate the force that has been exerted if we look back upon its work. "There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which is not shown to be "Lamb v. Cheney, 227 NY 418; Aikens v. Wisconsin, 195 US 194, 204; Pollock, "Torts," supra. questionable,...

...Adam, scripturally, "out of the dust of the earth," that a breathing of the "breath of life" touched. The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...which does not threaten to dissolve. Our religion has materialized itself in the fact, in the supposed fact; it has attached its emotion to the fact, and...

...swords of Caesars, they are less than rust: The poet doth remain. William Watson: "Lachrimce Musarum" "THE future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay." We can think of no better way of beginning a poetic anthology than by quoting this opening sentence...

..."the supreme of power." It is only on these great terms that Arnold could find the right to declare, "The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay." Only the view obtained from the ancient height enables us to say that mankind cannot rest on what is...

...pages of Arnold himself. " The future of poetry is immense," said Arnold, " because in poetry, when it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. . . . Without poetry our science will appear incomplete ; and most of what now passes with us for religion...

...from Matthew Arnold, reading in part : " The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, whera it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time...goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay." The poems that have withstood the winnowing hand of time are those that express truths, and are not...

...for a coterie. It is just here that the prophecy which Matthew Arnold made in 1880 may be fulfilled. "In poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, may come to find a surer and surer stay." For great ait, great literature, greiit poetry enable us,...