Essentials of Poetry: Lowell Lectures, 1911Houghton Mifflin, 1912 - 282 páginas |
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... discussions with a class of students of English literature in Harvard University . Much of whatever value the ideas here presented may possess is due to the questions and criticisms offered by members of the class , and by a few friends ...
... discussions with a class of students of English literature in Harvard University . Much of whatever value the ideas here presented may possess is due to the questions and criticisms offered by members of the class , and by a few friends ...
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... the critics of the later nineteenth century con- tinued the quest with unabated zeal . No gen- eral agreement , however , can be said to have been arrived at ; and recently the discussion has tended THE BALANCE OF QUALITIES.
... the critics of the later nineteenth century con- tinued the quest with unabated zeal . No gen- eral agreement , however , can be said to have been arrived at ; and recently the discussion has tended THE BALANCE OF QUALITIES.
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Lowell Lectures, 1911 William Allan Neilson. been arrived at ; and recently the discussion has tended to sheer off in two different directions , leaving the main issue for the moment unsettled . Just as , in the Eliza- bethan time , Sir ...
Lowell Lectures, 1911 William Allan Neilson. been arrived at ; and recently the discussion has tended to sheer off in two different directions , leaving the main issue for the moment unsettled . Just as , in the Eliza- bethan time , Sir ...
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... discussion of those elements of poetry of which we are in search . The criticism of antiquity began the in- quiry into the nature of poetry , not , like Bacon , by assigning it to the field of imagination , but rather to the memory ...
... discussion of those elements of poetry of which we are in search . The criticism of antiquity began the in- quiry into the nature of poetry , not , like Bacon , by assigning it to the field of imagination , but rather to the memory ...
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... discussion of the different kinds of poetry concerns , not definitions , but the means by which each kind becomes effective in producing its appropriate sort of pleasure . It is largely critical general- ization from the practice of the ...
... discussion of the different kinds of poetry concerns , not definitions , but the means by which each kind becomes effective in producing its appropriate sort of pleasure . It is largely critical general- ization from the practice of the ...
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Página 23 - Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on ; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Página 81 - REAPER BEHOLD her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland lass ! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass ! Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain ; O listen ! for the vale profound Is overflowing with the sound.
Página 22 - The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture ! 0, when degree is shak'd, Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enterprise is sick ! How could communities, Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, The primogenitive and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place? Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows ! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy:...
Página 82 - No Nightingale did ever chaunt More welcome notes to weary bands 10 Of travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands: A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.
Página 80 - Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling. analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us...
Página 143 - Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid Nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of ocean on his winding shore...
Página 95 - Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch Of mossy apple-tree...
Página 259 - If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, 'My dreams presage some joyful news at hand : My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne ; And all this day an unaccustom'd spirit Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.
Página 212 - If music be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ! it had a dying fall : O ! it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.
Página 148 - O World ! O life ! O time ! On whose last steps I climb, Trembling at that where I had stood before, — When will return the glory of your prime ? No more — oh never more ! Out of the day and night A joy has taken flight ; Fresh Spring, and Summer, and Winter hoar, Move my faint heart with grief, — but with delight No more — oh never more!