The Book of the Poe Centenary: A Record of the Exercises at the University of Virginia January 16-19, 1909, in Commemoration of the One Hundredth Birthday of Edgar Allan Poe ...Charles W. Kent, John Shelton Patton University of Virginia, 1909 - 211 páginas |
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The Book of the Poe Centenary: A Record of the Exercises at the University ... Charles W. Kent,John Shelton Patton Visualização integral - 1909 |
The Book of the Poe Centenary: A Record of the Exercises at the University ... Charles W. Kent,John Shelton Patton Visualização integral - 1909 |
The Book of the Poe Centenary: A Record of the Exercises at the University ... Charles W. Kent,John Shelton Patton Visualização de excertos - 1972 |
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æsthetic Alcée Fortier alma mater Alphonso Smith âme américain American poet Annabel Lee artistic avait Baudelaire beauty bien c'est celebration centenary Charles Coleridge contes de Poe Corbeau criticism d'Edgar d'une deux dreamer dreams écrivain Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Poe Emile Hennequin enduring England English extraordinaire fait fame feel Forgues français France Gautier génie genius German heart Heaven homme honor influence inspiration Israfel jamais Jefferson Kent l'auteur Lauvrière le Corbeau literary literature littéraire lyre Mallarmé marvelous melody memory ment modern mort never nineteenth century passion pensée perhaps phrase Poe's poème poems poésie poet's poète poetic poetry Professor prose qu'il Raven Society romantic seul short stories solitary song soul South Southern Literary Messenger spirit Stéphane Mallarmé student tenary Théophile Gautier tion translation tribute true University of Virginia utterance vers West Range word writer
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Página 158 - With the fervor of thy lute: Well may the stars be mute! Yes, Heaven is thine; but this Is a world of sweets and sours; Our flowers are merely — flowers, And the shadow of thy perfect bliss Is the sunshine of ours. If I could dwell Where Israfel Hath dwelt, and he where I, He might not sing so wildly well A mortal melody, While a bolder note than this might swell From my lyre within the sky.
Página 173 - A poem is that species of composition, which is opposed to works of science, by proposing for its immediate object pleasure, not truth; and from all other species (having this object in common with it) it is discriminated by proposing to itself such delight from the 190 whole, as is compatible with a distinct gratification from each component part.
Página 170 - A skilful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he then invents such incidents — he then combines such events that may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect.
Página 51 - Qui aimes-tu le mieux, homme énigmatique, dis? ton père, ta mère, ta sœur ou ton frère? — Je n'ai ni père, ni mère, ni sœur, ni frère. — Tes amis? — Vous vous servez là d'une parole dont le sens m'est resté jusqu'à ce jour inconnu.
Página 170 - If his very initial sentence tend not to the outbringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step. In the whole composition there should be no word written, of which the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one pre-established design. And by such means, with such care and skill, a picture is at length painted which leaves in the mind of him who contemplates it with a kindred art, a sense of the fullest satisfaction. The idea of the tale has been presented unblemished, because undisturbed;...
Página 134 - Lyrical Ballads; in which it was agreed that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic, yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Página 169 - ... upon the perfection of its finish, upon the nice adaptation of its constituent parts, and especially, upon what is rightly termed by Schlegel the unity or totality of interest.
Página 63 - Souvenir, souvenir, que me veux-tu? L'automne Faisait voler la grive à travers l'air atone Et le soleil dardait un rayon monotone Sur le bois jaunissant où la bise détone.
Página 69 - Tel qu'en Lui-même enfin l'éternité le change, Le Poète suscite avec un glaive nu Son siècle épouvanté de n'avoir pas connu Que la mort triomphait dans cette voix étrange ! Eux, comme un vil sursaut d'hydre oyant jadis l'ange Donner un sens plus pur aux mots de la tribu Proclamèrent très haut le sortilège bu Dans le flot sans honneur de quelque noir mélange.
Página 54 - Au-dessus de ce noir amas de maisons lépreuses, de ce dédale infect où circulent les spectres du plaisir, de cet immonde fourmillement de misère, de laideur et de perversités, loin, bien loin dans l'inaltérable azur, flotte l'adorable fantôme de la Béatrix, l'idéal toujours désiré, jamais atteint, la beauté supérieure et divine incarnée sous une forme de femme éthérée, spiritualisée, faite de lumière, de flamme et de parfum, une vapeur, un rêve, un reflet du monde aromal et séraphique...