| Thomas Love Peacock - 1921 - 156 páginas
...and contain in themselves the elements of verse ; being the echo of the eternal music. Nor' are those supreme poets, who have employed traditional /forms...less capable of perceiving and teaching the truth V_of things, than those who have omitted that form. Shakspeare, Dante, and Milton (to confine ourselves... | |
| Thomas Love Peacock - 1921 - 156 páginas
...of perceiving and teaching the truth of things, than those who have omitted that form. Shakspeare, Dante, and Milton (to confine ourselves to modern writers) are philosophers of the very loftiest powerri .. >"f A poem is the very image of life expressed jnJtsTfternaJ. fontibj There is this difference... | |
| Ben Jonson - 1921 - 576 páginas
...grace, upon further advisement, to publish." Cf. Shelley's Defense of Poetry (ed. Cook, pp. 10; 38) : 'A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth. . . . Poetry is indeed something divine.' 5- 5- 34- Sic transit gloria mundi. ' Sequence sung at the... | |
| Sir Archibald Thomas Strong, Sir Archibald Strong - 1921 - 206 páginas
...of Poetry he tells us that a poet participates in the eternal, the infinite, and the one, and that a poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth. It is the 'creation of actions according to the unchangeable forms of human nature, as existing in... | |
| William Tenney Brewster - 1922 - 426 páginas
...things, than those who have omitted 1 See the Filum Labyrinthi, and the Essay on Death particularly. that form. Shakespeare, Dante, and Milton (to confine...writers) are philosophers of the very loftiest power. f ' A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth. There is this difference between... | |
| Thomas Love Peacock - 1921 - 154 páginas
...and contain in themselves the elements of verse ; being the echo of the eternal music. Nor are those supreme poets, who have employed traditional forms...of things, than those who have omitted that form. Shakspeare, Dante, and Milton (to confine ourselves to modern writers) are philosophers of the very... | |
| 1894 - 680 páginas
...an art, but studied it as a science. In his " Defense of Poetry " he defines a poem as follows : " A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth." It is hard to comprehend so great a subject within the limits of a short sentence, and it will be observed... | |
| Theodor Spira - 1923 - 122 páginas
...Lichtgestalt klar. Daher kann denn Shelley hier fortfahren und mit dem vollen Gewicht der Worte sagen: «A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth». Ein Gedicht ist das eigentliche Bild des Lebens, ausgedrückt in seiner ewigen Wahrheit. Zum Ausdruck... | |
| William Tenney Brewster - 1925 - 424 páginas
...and contain in themselves the elements of verse; being the echo of the eternal music. Nor are those supreme poets, who have employed traditional forms...teaching the truth of things, than those who have omitted 1 See the I-' Hum Labyrinthi, and the Essay on Death particularly. that form. Shakespeare, Dante, and... | |
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