Ethics and æsthetics of modern poetry, by J.B. Selkirk1878 |
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... verse and prose , those subtle prehensile tentacles of his , that touched so softly , and yet have closed so firmly , upon modern thought . It was an atmosphere Clough had never breathed before , and it proved too much for his tender ...
... verse and prose , those subtle prehensile tentacles of his , that touched so softly , and yet have closed so firmly , upon modern thought . It was an atmosphere Clough had never breathed before , and it proved too much for his tender ...
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... verses . Again , his great eulogist , and a true critic , George Brimley , tells us that he often met with persons of unquestioned talent and good taste ' who declared they found the poet obscure and affected . Even Words- worth himself ...
... verses . Again , his great eulogist , and a true critic , George Brimley , tells us that he often met with persons of unquestioned talent and good taste ' who declared they found the poet obscure and affected . Even Words- worth himself ...
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... seems to be carefully framed on the recommendation of Cartwright's verse : Let's keep them In the desperate hope of understanding us . One of the most unhealthy features of this unhealthy school MYSTICISM AND MODERN POETRY . 103.
... seems to be carefully framed on the recommendation of Cartwright's verse : Let's keep them In the desperate hope of understanding us . One of the most unhealthy features of this unhealthy school MYSTICISM AND MODERN POETRY . 103.
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... verses , only fit for the hearing of the initiated few . It will turn out to be all against himself in the end . If he be indeed a poet , he ought to stand in a very different relation to his time ; a relation as nearly as possible the ...
... verses , only fit for the hearing of the initiated few . It will turn out to be all against himself in the end . If he be indeed a poet , he ought to stand in a very different relation to his time ; a relation as nearly as possible the ...
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... verses sung to the clank of the loom , or the ring of the anvil , as see them lying bound in morocco on any number of drawing - room tables ? But this is too severe a test for modern poetry . Not much of it will stand the light of the ...
... verses sung to the clank of the loom , or the ring of the anvil , as see them lying bound in morocco on any number of drawing - room tables ? But this is too severe a test for modern poetry . Not much of it will stand the light of the ...
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accept admit ÆSCHYLUS æsthetic affectation altogether amongst Arnold artist atheism attempt beauty become believe Browning called cism civilisation common confession conviction creed criticism Crown 8vo culture declared divine doubt earthly ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING English English poetry everything exponent eyes fact faith genius Giaours gift give Goethe hand heart heaven Hebrew highest imagination inspiration intellectual J. S. Mill JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS kind less literary literature living Lucretius man's means Memoriam mind MODERN POETRY moral mysticism never obscure Palace of Art perfect perhaps Pheidias philosophy poem poet poet's poetic faculty possess prose prove question reader reason religion religious instinct rhymed rhymed prose scepticism scientific seems sense Shakspeare Shelley side soul speak spiritual strong taste Tennyson theology theory things thorough-bass thought tion true poetry truth turn verse Victorian era words worship write
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Page 148 - Lest she should fail and perish utterly, God, before whom ever lie bare The abysmal deeps of Personality, Plagued her with sore despair. When she would think, where'er she turn'd her sight The airy hand confusion wrought, Wrote, 'Mene, mene...
Page 127 - From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine Threatening the world with high astounding terms And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword.
Page 163 - I think this is the authentic sign and seal Of Godship, that it ever waxes glad, And more glad, until gladness blossoms, bursts Into a rage to suffer for mankind, And recommence at sorrow : drops like seed After the blossom, ultimate of all.
Page 220 - A set o' dull conceited hashes Confuse their brains in college classes ! They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o
Page 10 - Time, force, and death, Do to this body what extremes you can ; But the strong base and building of my love Is as the very centre of the earth, Drawing all things to it.
Page 175 - TEARS, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge ; So sad, so fresh, the days...
Page 9 - But evil on itself shall back recoil, And mix no more with goodness, when at last, Gathered like scum, and settled to itself, It shall be in eternal restless change Self-fed and self-consumed. If this fail, The pillared firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.
Page 235 - The divorce between song and sense had then reached its utmost range; and to all verses connected with music, from a Birth-day Ode down to the libretto of the last new opera, might fairly be applied the solution Figaro gives of the quality of the words of songs, in general, — 'Ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'etre dit, on le chante...
Page 141 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by br oad spreading, it disperse to naught.
Page 150 - That did love Beauty, only (Beauty seen In all varieties of mould and mind,) And Knowledge for its beauty ; or if Good, Good only for its beauty, seeing not That Beauty, Good, and Knowledge are three sisters That dote upon each other, friends to man, Living together under the same roof, And never can be sunder'd without tears...