The Greater English Poets of the Nineteenth CenturyH. Holt, 1907 - 388 páginas |
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... social condi- tions of their time . This , at all events , is not as dis- tinctly a work of supererogation as would be a repe- tition of that combination of literary analysis and personal characterisation which is most frequently given ...
... social condi- tions of their time . This , at all events , is not as dis- tinctly a work of supererogation as would be a repe- tition of that combination of literary analysis and personal characterisation which is most frequently given ...
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... social con- ventions of their time — this twofold fact , I say , based upon a false perspective and a complete mis- understanding of the poetic art , was amply suffi- cient to account for the success of a form of doc- trine whose ...
... social con- ventions of their time — this twofold fact , I say , based upon a false perspective and a complete mis- understanding of the poetic art , was amply suffi- cient to account for the success of a form of doc- trine whose ...
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... social progress . From the defence of the Areopagus and the old conservative order by Eschylus to the de- nunciation by Hugo of the saturnalia of a bastard French imperialism , the most famous of poets have always been ready - have ...
... social progress . From the defence of the Areopagus and the old conservative order by Eschylus to the de- nunciation by Hugo of the saturnalia of a bastard French imperialism , the most famous of poets have always been ready - have ...
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... social and intellectual pressure of the times in which they are written . If the creation of pure beauty were the sole aim of poetry , such dicta as those which I have quoted from Mill and Arnold would find sufficient justifica- tion ...
... social and intellectual pressure of the times in which they are written . If the creation of pure beauty were the sole aim of poetry , such dicta as those which I have quoted from Mill and Arnold would find sufficient justifica- tion ...
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... social activity , their envisagement of the problems of science and philosophy , of society and politics , of religion and the conduct of life , some- what less has been said and written ; and it is to these matters that I wish chiefly ...
... social activity , their envisagement of the problems of science and philosophy , of society and politics , of religion and the conduct of life , some- what less has been said and written ; and it is to these matters that I wish chiefly ...
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Arnold artistic beauty breath Browning Browning's Byron called century character Chaucer close Coleridge Convention of Cintra criticism dark dawn death deep divine doubt Dowden dreams earth Earthly Paradise emotion England English poetry expression eyes fact faith feeling freedom French French Revolution genius glory Goethe hath heart heaven hope human ideal ideas imagination influence inspiration intellectual John Morley Keats Landor later liberty light literary literature living lyrical Lyrical Ballads Matthew Arnold mind modern mood moral Morris nature never passage passion Philistine philosophy poem poet poet's poetic political praise Prometheus Prometheus Unbound prose Queen Mab readers realise religious Revolution romantic Rossetti says seems sense Shelley Shelley's social song sonnets soul spirit sweet Swinburne Swinburne's sympathy Tennyson thee thine things thou thought tion true truth utterance verse vision voice volume Walter Savage Landor whole wind words Wordsworth writings wrote
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Página 133 - Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world Is lightened: — that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on,— Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: 319 While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the...
Página 53 - The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn: Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.
Página 49 - To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...
Página 208 - Therefore to whom turn I but to thee, the ineffable Name? Builder and maker, thou, of houses not made with hands! What, have fear of change from thee who art ever the same? Doubt that thy power can fill the heart that thy power expands? There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before...
Página 240 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Página 248 - FEAR no more the heat o' the sun, Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages. Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. Fear no more the frown o...
Página 129 - The principal object, then, proposed in these poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men...
Página 248 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Página 233 - Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
Página 132 - The man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor ; he cherishes and loves it in his solitude ; the poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion.