English Critical Essays (nineteenth Century)Edmund David Jones H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1924 - 610 Seiten |
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... interest mankind permanently , and not unimportant in the quality , and in the multiplicity of its moral relations and on this account they have advised me to prefix a systematic defence of the theory upon which the Poems were written ...
... interest mankind permanently , and not unimportant in the quality , and in the multiplicity of its moral relations and on this account they have advised me to prefix a systematic defence of the theory upon which the Poems were written ...
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... interest him . Others who pursue a different track will interest him likewise ; I do not interfere with their claim , but wish to prefer a claim of my own . There will also be found in these volumes little of what is usually called ...
... interest him . Others who pursue a different track will interest him likewise ; I do not interfere with their claim , but wish to prefer a claim of my own . There will also be found in these volumes little of what is usually called ...
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... interest them . The Poet thinks and feels in the spirit of human passions . How , then , can his language differ in any material degree from that of all other men who feel vividly and see clearly ? It might be proved that it is ...
... interest them . The Poet thinks and feels in the spirit of human passions . How , then , can his language differ in any material degree from that of all other men who feel vividly and see clearly ? It might be proved that it is ...
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... interest ; and for this reason a few words shall be added with reference solely to these particular poems , and to some defects which will probably be found in them . I am sensible that my associations must have sometimes been ...
... interest ; and for this reason a few words shall be added with reference solely to these particular poems , and to some defects which will probably be found in them . I am sensible that my associations must have sometimes been ...
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... interest excited by some other kinds of poetry is less vivid , and less worthy of the nobler powers of the mind , as to offer reasons for presuming , that if my purpose were fulfilled , a species of poetry would be produced , which is ...
... interest excited by some other kinds of poetry is less vivid , and less worthy of the nobler powers of the mind , as to offer reasons for presuming , that if my purpose were fulfilled , a species of poetry would be produced , which is ...
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action Aeschylus artist beauty become Ben Jonson called character charm Chaucer Coleridge Coleridge's colour composition criticism Dante delight distinction divine drama effect emotion excellence excitement expression fact faculty Faerie Queene fancy feeling genius give Goethe Grasmere Greek Hamlet heart heaven highest human idea images imagination imitation impression instance intellectual judgement kind language less literature living look Lyrical Ballads Macbeth manner means metre metrical Milton mind modern moral nature never object Orlando Furioso Othello painting Paradise Lost passion pathetic fallacy peculiar perfect perhaps person Petrarch philosopher pleasure poem poet poet's poetical poetry present Priam principle produced prose reader reason rhyme sacred sacred poet seems sense Shakespeare sort soul speak Spenser spirit stanza style sympathy taste things thought tion tragedy true truth uncon verse whole William Wordsworth words Wordsworth write
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Seite 332 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Seite 337 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride...
Seite 122 - Poets, according to the circumstances of the age and nation in which they appeared, were called, in the earlier epochs of the world, legislators, or prophets : a poet essentially comprises and unites both these characters. For he not only beholds intensely the present as it is, and discovers those laws according to which present things ought to be ordered, but he beholds the future in the present, and his thoughts are the germs of the flower and the fruit of latest time.
Seite 65 - Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean; so over that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend nature — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Seite 332 - Blest madman ! who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both (to show his judgment) in extremes; So over violent, or over civil, That every man, with him, was God or devil.
Seite 130 - Poetry strengthens the faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man in ^the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb. A poet therefore would do ill to embody his own conceptions of right and wrong, which are usually those of his place and time, in his poetical creations, which participate in neither.
Seite 110 - ... from the ordinary purposes of life, but exerting its powers, as the wind blows where it listeth, at will upon the corruptions and abuses of mankind. What have looks or tones to do with that sublime identification of his age with that of the heavens themselves, when, in his reproaches to them for conniving at the injustice of his children, he reminds them that
Seite 487 - To their fathers and mothers having risen Out of some subterraneous prison Into which they were trepanned Long time ago in a mighty band Out of Hamelin town in Brunswick land, But how or why, they don't understand.
Seite 47 - Humble and rustic life was generally chosen because in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language...
Seite 130 - The great secret of morals is love ; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which 30 exists in thought, action, or person, not our own.