 | Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - 1921 - 316 páginas
...significance, revealing to him in the history of his own soul a brief abstract of the drama of human destiny. ' Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge — it is as immortal as the heart of man.' Its themes are the simplest experiences of the surface of life, sorrow and joy, love and battle, the... | |
 | Arthur Melville Clark - 1922 - 100 páginas
...freedom and hunger for discovery. Wordsworth in the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads had declared : " Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge —...as immortal as the heart of man. If the labours of the men of science should ever create any material revolution, direct or indirect, in our condition,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1922 - 350 páginas
...subject which can interest the human mind.'2 .' Later he confirmed and explained this statement: ' Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge — it is as immortal as the heart of man. ... If the time should ever come when what is now called science, . . . familiarized to men, shall be ready to... | |
 | Laura Hulda Wild - 1922 - 306 páginas
...judgments to do with scientific reasoning upon material facts. Intuition goes deeper than that, he thinks. "Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge — it is as immortal as the heart of man. ... I am convinced that the supreme artistic power is that of drawing upon a spirit which lies below... | |
 | 1922 - 384 páginas
...knowledge the vast empire of human society as it spreads over the whole earth, and over all time . . . Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge ... It is as immortal as the heart of man."2 "Wordsworth: Preface to Second Edition of the Lyrical Ballads. NATIONALISM IN CONTEMPORARY FRENCH... | |
 | University of Wisconsin - 1922 - 300 páginas
...spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science. It is the first and last of all knowledge; it is as immortal as the heart of man."24 Imagination is "Reason in her most exalted mood."25 Such being the case, how is poetry produced?... | |
 | George Stuart Gordon - 1923 - 30 páginas
...Government and Christianity have failed. The time cannot be far distant when the poet, who ' follows wheresoever he can find an atmosphere of sensation in which to move his wings', will invade this vast new territory, and so once more bring sanctification and joy into the sphere... | |
 | Jacomina Korteling - 1928 - 196 páginas
...word? He once said that anybody entirely devoid of a feeling for poetry could not be truly religious. "Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge — it is as immortal as the heart of man Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful... | |
 | Elizabeth Avery, Jane Olive Dorsey, Vera Abigail Sickels - 1928 - 568 páginas
...knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth and over all time. . . . Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge — it is as immortal as the heart of man. WORDSWORTH, Preface to Lyrical Ballads 14 The Iliad is from two to three thousand years older than... | |
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... and things violently destroyed ; the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time. The objects of the Poet's thoughts are everywhere... 
