The Romantic Movement in English PoetryDutton, 1909 - 344 Seiten |
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... to the novelist . The his- torian , after all , like the man of science , is concerned primarily with facts . He undertakes to tell us the truth about the past , and it is only when he competes with the novelist INTRODUCTION 7.
... to the novelist . The his- torian , after all , like the man of science , is concerned primarily with facts . He undertakes to tell us the truth about the past , and it is only when he competes with the novelist INTRODUCTION 7.
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... truth . . . . One writer of the prose tale , in short , may bring to his theme a vast variety of modes or inflexion of thought and expression ( the ratio- cinative , for example , the sarcastic or humorous ) which are not only ...
... truth . . . . One writer of the prose tale , in short , may bring to his theme a vast variety of modes or inflexion of thought and expression ( the ratio- cinative , for example , the sarcastic or humorous ) which are not only ...
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... truth , are moved by it to reflect in their work its particular form and character . ' In other words , we are to believe that the cart drives the horse , that the taste of the time makes the genius of the poet . It is the poet who , by ...
... truth , are moved by it to reflect in their work its particular form and character . ' In other words , we are to believe that the cart drives the horse , that the taste of the time makes the genius of the poet . It is the poet who , by ...
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... truth , truth beauty , ' is a saying not personal to Keats only . It was what Coleridge , who doubted everything else , never doubted ; it characterises Wordsworth's poetry whenever it is poetry and not prose . That very revolt against ...
... truth , truth beauty , ' is a saying not personal to Keats only . It was what Coleridge , who doubted everything else , never doubted ; it characterises Wordsworth's poetry whenever it is poetry and not prose . That very revolt against ...
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... truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it , but for the sake of defending those who do ' ; and again , with still more excellent and harder courage : ' When I am endeavouring to think rightly , I must not ...
... truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it , but for the sake of defending those who do ' ; and again , with still more excellent and harder courage : ' When I am endeavouring to think rightly , I must not ...
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ballad Barry Cornwall beauty Blake blank verse Byron cadence called Campbell Catullus Charles Lamb Coleridge colour comes conscious Crabbe criticism Dante death delight drama dream edited Elizabethan emotion English poetry expression fancy feeling genius heart human humour imagination impulse Irish JOHN JOSEPH BLANCO WHITE Keats kind Lamb Landor language Latin Leigh Hunt less letter lines lived lyric metre mind Moore moral nature never once ottava rima parody passion perhaps plays pleasure poem poet poetical Prometheus Unbound prose realised reality remembered rendered rhyme rhythm romantic says scene Scott seems seen sense sensitive Shakespeare Shelley Siege of Ancona sincerity songs sonnets soul Southey speaking speech spirit stanza story strange style taste tells things THOMAS DERMODY thought tion touch translation truth turn voice vols wholly WILLIAM MAGINN wonder words Wordsworth writing written wrote
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Seite 304 - Dilke on various subjects; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously— I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason...
Seite 138 - But now afflictions bow me down to earth: Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth; But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.
Seite 84 - It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.
Seite 89 - Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress ; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.
Seite 84 - I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity...
Seite 84 - I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation, that sort of pleasure and that quantity of pleasure may be imparted, which a Poet may rationally endeavour to impart.
Seite 156 - Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
Seite 40 - Whether in Heaven ye wander fair, Or the green corners of the earth, Or the blue regions of the air, Where the melodious winds have birth; Whether on crystal rocks ye rove, Beneath the bosom of the sea Wandering in many a coral grove Fair Nine, forsaking Poetry! How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the notes are few!
Seite 306 - A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no Identity — he is continually in for and filling some other body.
Seite 138 - My shaping spirit of Imagination. For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man This was my sole resource, my only plan: Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.