The Bridling of Pegasus: Prose Papers on Poetry"The Bridling of Pegasus: Prose Papers on Poetry" by Alfred Austin. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format. |
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... kind , verse that just crosses the border between prosaic and poetic verse , and would otherwise be denied admission to the territory of the Muses . Some of the enthusiasts to whom allusion has been made have , I am assured , declared ...
... kind , verse that just crosses the border between prosaic and poetic verse , and would otherwise be denied admission to the territory of the Muses . Some of the enthusiasts to whom allusion has been made have , I am assured , declared ...
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... kind, is lucidity, or clearness of expression. No poet of much account is ever obscure, unless the text happens to be corrupt. When essays and even volumes are issued, since deemed indispensable for the understanding of a writer ...
... kind, is lucidity, or clearness of expression. No poet of much account is ever obscure, unless the text happens to be corrupt. When essays and even volumes are issued, since deemed indispensable for the understanding of a writer ...
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... kind; (2) Sentiment, also vague at first, but by degrees becoming more definite, until it attaches itself to one or more objects exclusively; (3) Thought or Reflection, somewhat hazy in its inception, and often remaining in that ...
... kind; (2) Sentiment, also vague at first, but by degrees becoming more definite, until it attaches itself to one or more objects exclusively; (3) Thought or Reflection, somewhat hazy in its inception, and often remaining in that ...
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... kind than the foregoing, though Wordsworth may not be the best source from which to draw it. Perhaps its highest possibilities are to be found in Byron, and conspicuously in the third and fourth cantos of Childe Harold. Many of the ...
... kind than the foregoing, though Wordsworth may not be the best source from which to draw it. Perhaps its highest possibilities are to be found in Byron, and conspicuously in the third and fourth cantos of Childe Harold. Many of the ...
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... kind of poetry, may rise to striking elevation of merit, and has its counterpart in the sliding scale of observation in various individuals. Let us now take a step, and a long one, in the scale of importance attained by the various ...
... kind of poetry, may rise to striking elevation of merit, and has its counterpart in the sliding scale of observation in various individuals. Let us now take a step, and a long one, in the scale of importance attained by the various ...
Contents
A COMPARISON AND A CONTRAST | |
BYRON AND WORDSWORTH | |
DANTES REALISTIC TREATMENT OF THE IDEAL | |
DANTES POETIC CONCEPTION OF WOMAN | |
A VINDICATION OF TENNYSON | |
ON THE RELATION OF LITERATURE TO POLITICS | |
A CONVERSATION WITH SHAKESPEARE IN THE ELYSIAN FIELDS | |
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admiration Æneid Alfred de Musset Beatrice beautiful body of powerful Byron called canto character Chaucer cheerful Childe Harold conception of Woman confess criticism Dante Dante’s delightful disinterested lover Divina Commedia doubt dramatic English poet English poetry epic expressed feel feminine note genius hear heard heart Heaven human Ideal imagination inferior interest kind L’Allegro less lines literary literature Locksley Hall lover of poetry Lyrical Poetry masculine Matthew Arnold melodious Muse Musset nature never o’er once one’s opinion Paradise Lost passage passions perhaps persons Pessimism poem poet poet since Milton poet’s poetic politics prose readers realistic Reflective Poetry Rizpah Scherer seems sentiment Shakespeare Shelley singing song Spenser stanzas sure sweet Swinburne sympathy tale tell tender Tennyson theme things thought true verse Victor Hirtzler Victor Hugo Virgil Vita Nuova women words Wordsworth Wordsworthian write written