 | Richard Bradford - 1994 - 234 páginas
...literary and aesthetic history in Part III but for the moment consider this quotation from Shelley. A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth. ... A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts drat which should be beautiful:... | |
 | Jocelyne Kolb - 1995 - 368 páginas
...them from the same tribunal." Shelley speaks of a similar and grand truth in the Defenst of Poetry: "A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth" and exists "in the mind of the Creator."37 Byron uses the vocabulary of his contemporaries to parody... | |
 | Paul Kane - 1996 - 268 páginas
...transvaluation of poetry enacted here is of a piece with Murray's own thinking; either one might have written 'A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth,' or 'The true Poetry of Rome lived in its institutions,' and either might have referred to the poetry... | |
 | Timothy Rogers - 1997 - 538 páginas
...to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst. If Shelley's words still rang true that 'A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth' , this was the moment when a careful examination of the 'eternal truth' and its possible relation to... | |
 | Henry McBride - 1997 - 510 páginas
...ignoramus who fined Brancusi would be much helped in judging poetry by Shelley's famous description of it. "A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth. . . . Time, which destroys the beauty and the use of the story of particular facts, stripped of the... | |
 | James Chandler - 1999 - 616 páginas
...the prominence certain slogans have achieved in our understanding of its characteristic attitudes. "A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth," wrote Shelley in A Defence of Poetry (comp. 1821), and the same text includes a claim apparently even... | |
 | Maria Irene Ramalho Sousa Santos - 2003 - 388 páginas
...is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it" [38]; "A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth" [3o]; "a poet is a nightingale who sings in darkness and sings to cheer his own solitude with sweet... | |
 | Bruce Haley - 2003 - 322 páginas
...perpetuates the past. THE POTENCY OF THE LIVING IMAGE Unified by authorial perception and intention, a poem is "the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth." It has that advantage over the story, which deals with the particular, not the universal, as Aristotle... | |
 | Patrick Laude - 2005 - 248 páginas
...conveys. This ability presupposes that poetry may reach the very depth of human and terrestrial existence. "A Poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth," wrote Shelley in his Defence of Poetry (9.59); and the contrast that he draws between the factual "insignificance"... | |
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... and rhythmical, 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 rhythm on account of the form and action of their subjects, less capable of perceiving... 
