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" The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity . . . nothing can make up for excess or for the lack of definiteness. "
The Scottish Review - Seite 208
1883
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Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and ..., Band 6

1855 - 714 Seiten
...simplicity, and tho sunlight of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity — noth,ng can make up for excess, or for the lack of definiteness. * * * To speak in literature, with tho perfect rectitude and the insouciance of the movements of animals and...
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A manual for country building, in advocacy of certain principles of plan and ...

George Scratton - 1865 - 616 Seiten
...else than what they are." In his first preface to Leaves of Grass Whitman writes, "The art of arts, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity. . . . To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movement of animals...
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Poems

Walt Whitman - 1868 - 464 Seiten
...twain. The greatest poet has lain close betwixt both, and they are vital in his style and thoughts. The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine...of letters, is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity, — nothing can make up for excess or for the lack of definiteness. To carry on the heave...
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Our Living Poets: An Essay in Criticism, Band 1

Harry Buxton Forman - 1871 - 536 Seiten
...poet is deficient or excessive in the weightier matters of sentiment and passion. XIV. WILLIAM MORRIS. 'The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine...light of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity .... nothing can make up for excess or for the lack of dedniteness. To carry on the heave...
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The Yale Literary Magazine, Band 41

1876 - 502 Seiten
...successor, and his name is Morris, not Miller. Whitman said in the strange preface to " Leaves of Grass," " The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. The greatest poet has less a marked style ; he swears to his art, I will not be meddlesome ; what I...
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Studies in Literature, 1789-1877

Edward Dowden - 1878 - 542 Seiten
...the incoherent, and the lawless, read what follows from the preface to " Leaves of Grass : " — " The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine...light of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity — nothing can make up for excess, or for the lack of definiteness. To carry on the heave...
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Rose-Belford's Canadian Monthly and National Review, Band 5

1880 - 690 Seiten
...which is most certain of finding a responsive chord in our bosoms. 'The art of art,' says the poet, ' the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity — nothing can make up for excess or for the lack of definiteness. To carry on the heave...
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Rose-Belford's Canadian Monthly and National Review, Band 5;Band 18

Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1880 - 704 Seiten
...is most certain of finding a responsive chord in our bosoms. 'The art of art,' ваув the poet, ' the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity — nothing can make up for excess or for the lack of défini teness. To carry on the heave...
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Leaves of Grass: Preface to the Original Edition, 1855

Walt Whitman - 1881 - 44 Seiten
...twain. The greatest poet has lain close betwixt both, and they are vital in his style and thoughts. The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine...of letters, is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity . . . nothing can make up for excess or for the lack of defmiteness. To carry on the heave...
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The Nineteenth Century, Band 12

1882 - 1050 Seiten
...If, however, he has in his choice of words sought that simplicity which (to quote his own words) is ' the art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters,' he has certainly not seldom failed to attain it, and it was hardly to be attained by pouring out indiscriminately...
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