A Text-book for the Study of PoetryAllyn and Bacon, 1913 - 214 pagine |
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... true , we may define poetry to be the art of giving expression to the beautiful through the medium of language . If this definition were satisfactory , the nature of poetry would not furnish a theme for endless discussion . But it is ...
... true , we may define poetry to be the art of giving expression to the beautiful through the medium of language . If this definition were satisfactory , the nature of poetry would not furnish a theme for endless discussion . But it is ...
Pagina 3
... true that we do often apply the epithet , beautiful , to such colors and sounds as merely please the eye and ear . But this would seem to be an inaccurate , or at least an analogical use of the term ; and for this reason . If we will ...
... true that we do often apply the epithet , beautiful , to such colors and sounds as merely please the eye and ear . But this would seem to be an inaccurate , or at least an analogical use of the term ; and for this reason . If we will ...
Pagina 4
... true sense , we do so because we read in its mysterious depths of distance an image of infinity , or in its lurid red an image of danger or doom . It is true , indeed , that for less - gifted mortals who are not poets , such ideas may ...
... true sense , we do so because we read in its mysterious depths of distance an image of infinity , or in its lurid red an image of danger or doom . It is true , indeed , that for less - gifted mortals who are not poets , such ideas may ...
Pagina 6
... true to say that the two ideas are coextensive , does every object really beautiful excite a noble emotion ? We make answer in the affirmative . Let us take two examples where at first sight the affirmation may seem to be questionable ...
... true to say that the two ideas are coextensive , does every object really beautiful excite a noble emotion ? We make answer in the affirmative . Let us take two examples where at first sight the affirmation may seem to be questionable ...
Pagina 9
... true grounds for the noble emotions.1 It will be noted that in this formula we have introduced the expression " imaginative representation . " This is not an un- warranted addition , but merely an explicit statement of what has already ...
... true grounds for the noble emotions.1 It will be noted that in this formula we have introduced the expression " imaginative representation . " This is not an un- warranted addition , but merely an explicit statement of what has already ...
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Pagina 192 - Fear death? — to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The power of the night, the press of the storm, The post of the foe; Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, Yet the strong man must go...
Pagina 158 - I SPRANG to the stirrup, and Joris, and he ; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three ; " Good speed ! " cried the watch, as the gatebolts undrew ; "Speed...
Pagina 39 - O Proserpina ! For the flowers now that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath...
Pagina 158 - HALF a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. " Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns," he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade!
Pagina 38 - I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Pagina 195 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Pagina 32 - Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was as white as leprosy, The Night-mare LIFE-IN-DEATH was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold. The naked hulk alongside came, And the twain were casting dice; "The game is done! I've won! I've won!
Pagina 200 - Each cast at the other, as when two black clouds, With Heaven's artillery fraught, come rattling on Over the Caspian ; then stand front to front Hovering a space, till winds the signal blow To join their dark encounter in mid air...
Pagina 44 - Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars, Dream, and so dream all night without a stir...
Pagina 165 - THAT'S my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Fra Pandolf's hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands. Will't please you sit and look at her? I said "Fra Pandolf...