 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1909 - 250 pagine
...incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them throughout, as far as this was possible, in a selection of language really used...same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of the imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect ; and... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1905 - 292 pagine
...principal object, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout,...possible, in a selection of language really used by men. But though the Preface removes an obvious confusion of language, it brings into relief a real confusion... | |
 | William Morton Payne - 1907 - 404 pagine
...principal object, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout,...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect." "There will also be found in these pieces little of what is usually called poetic diction;... | |
 | Grace Eleanor Hadow, William Henry Hadow - 1908 - 440 pagine
...to myself in these poems,' so runs the preface, ' was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them throughout, as...possible, in a selection of language really used by men.' The theory of poetic diction was to be abandoned, and poetry was to express the essential truth of... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 574 pagine
...then, which I proposed to myself in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout,...tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the priman7 laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a... | |
 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, John Heminge, Henry Condell, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Hippolyte Taine - 1910 - 638 pagine
...principal object, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout,...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1911 - 296 pagine
...changes 'to make the incidents . . . interesting ' to : to chuse incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout,...make these incidents and situations interesting by 12 1802 : chosen, because in that condition, the 13 1802 : because in that condition of life . . .... | |
 | Elias Hershey Sneath - 1912 - 344 pagine
...principal object, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout,...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect ; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing... | |
 | William Allan Neilson - 1912 - 304 pagine
...famous Preface that his object was "to choose incidents and situations from common life, . . . and to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination,...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect ; and further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1913 - 410 pagine
...overpower." His principal object, he says again, was " to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout,...should be presented to the mind in an unusual way." He ran this theory of his to extremes, so that even Coleridge was driven to protest ; but one does... | |
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Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination,... 
