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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... present no difficulty . Of Shakespeare , the greatest of all the poets in our language , let it be granted that he is not unoften one of the most careless and even most slovenly ; but rarely is he so to the obscuring of his meaning ...
... present no difficulty . Of Shakespeare , the greatest of all the poets in our language , let it be granted that he is not unoften one of the most careless and even most slovenly ; but rarely is he so to the obscuring of his meaning ...
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... present, there is an advance in poetic value over the preceding stage, without the preceding one being eliminated ... presents us with an ample supply of illustrations in three out of the four different kinds of poetry; and therefore to ...
... present, there is an advance in poetic value over the preceding stage, without the preceding one being eliminated ... presents us with an ample supply of illustrations in three out of the four different kinds of poetry; and therefore to ...
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... present to the recognition of the fact , and to seek to show how very various are the degrees of eminence in Lyrical Poetry . The lyrical note is so natural to poets and poetry that we may expect to find it in the verse of all poets ...
... present to the recognition of the fact , and to seek to show how very various are the degrees of eminence in Lyrical Poetry . The lyrical note is so natural to poets and poetry that we may expect to find it in the verse of all poets ...
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... present, of the warbling impulse in all poets. Heard but fitfully during the greater part of the eighteenth century, yet most arrestingly in Gray, Collins, and Burns, Lyrical Poetry from the last onward without intermission, to our own ...
... present, of the warbling impulse in all poets. Heard but fitfully during the greater part of the eighteenth century, yet most arrestingly in Gray, Collins, and Burns, Lyrical Poetry from the last onward without intermission, to our own ...
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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