Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative of Those First Requisites of Their Art; with Markings of the Best Passages, Critical Notices of the Writers, and an Essay in Answer to the Question, "What is Poetry?"Wiley and Putnam, 1845 - 255 sider |
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... true , the answer is , by the fact of their existence , -by the consent and delight of poetic readers . And as feeling is the earliest teacher , and perception the only final proof , of things the most demonstrable by science , so the ...
... true , the answer is , by the fact of their existence , -by the consent and delight of poetic readers . And as feeling is the earliest teacher , and perception the only final proof , of things the most demonstrable by science , so the ...
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... true poet , and all of them possessed by the greatest . Perhaps they may be enume- rated as follows : -First , that which presents to the mind any object or circumstance in every - day life ; as when we imagine a man holding a sword ...
... true poet , and all of them possessed by the greatest . Perhaps they may be enume- rated as follows : -First , that which presents to the mind any object or circumstance in every - day life ; as when we imagine a man holding a sword ...
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... true , he must not ( as the Platonists would say ) humanize weakly or mistakenly in that region ; otherwise he runs the chance of forgetting to be true to the supernatural itself , and so betraying a want of imagination from that quar ...
... true , he must not ( as the Platonists would say ) humanize weakly or mistakenly in that region ; otherwise he runs the chance of forgetting to be true to the supernatural itself , and so betraying a want of imagination from that quar ...
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... true embodiment . In poets , even good of their kind , but without a genius for narration , the action would have been en- cumbered or diverted with ingenious mistakes . The over - con- templative would have given us too many remarks ...
... true embodiment . In poets , even good of their kind , but without a genius for narration , the action would have been en- cumbered or diverted with ingenious mistakes . The over - con- templative would have given us too many remarks ...
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... true poet is no clog . It is idly called a trammel and a difficulty . It is a help . It springs from the same enthusiasm as the rest of his impulses , and is necessary to their satisfaction and effect . Verse is no more a clog than the ...
... true poet is no clog . It is idly called a trammel and a difficulty . It is a help . It springs from the same enthusiasm as the rest of his impulses , and is necessary to their satisfaction and effect . Verse is no more a clog than the ...
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