 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 Seiten
...writes (TVte Poet) that what makes a poem is not metres, but "a thought so passionate and alive that ... it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing." 57. Cf. Emerson's lines To JW : — " Life is too short to waste In critic peep or cynic bark." Why... | |
 | 1854 - 694 Seiten
...— that in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form — •' л thought so passiouato and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, nuil adorns nature with a new thing." How plainly Mr. Willis is thought a contemporary, not an eternal... | |
 | 1845 - 670 Seiten
...cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations." — " It is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing." — " In our way of talking we say, ' That is yours, this is mine,' but the Poet knows well that it... | |
 | Literary and philosophical society of Liverpool - 1851 - 742 Seiten
...within. It was the same in poetry, which was not rythmic or cadenced words, but a voice of the heart—" a thought so passionate and alive, that like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it had an architecture of its own." In every one of the arts, the same law held sway : the elements used... | |
 | 1853 - 538 Seiten
...The argument is secondary, the finish of the verses is primary" — in disregard of the truth that it is not metres, but a metremaking argument, that makes a poem — that in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form — " a thought so passionate and... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 Seiten
...The argument is secondary, the finish of the verses is primary" — in disregard of the truth that it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem; that in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form — " a thought so passionate and alive,... | |
 | 1855 - 448 Seiten
...something of our own; and so mis-write the poem." Here also is another definition of true poetry ; — "a thought so passionate and alive, that like the spirit of a plant, or an animal, it has an arehiteeture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing." Bnt in aeeordanee with the quotation... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 Seiten
...little for the dress of his lines ; the rhyme is altogether secondary ; he justifies himself by saying, "It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing," And yet, strange as the metre may be, we remember no poet whose lines more pointedly impress themselves... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1875 - 192 Seiten
...tJie present time.~\ V } aJ ^ -7 ii, i •),«,-* * ~u* vr"3i ! -fA« )f^^"f""> MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. "It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that...architecture of its own, and, adorns Nature with a nem thing And this is tlte reward : that the ideal ihall be the real to thee, and the impressions of... | |
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For, it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, — a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. 
