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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... thought. This it is that is being dethroned in our day, and is being supplanted by a babel of clashing, irreconcilable utterances, often proceeding from the same quarters, even the same mouths. In no department of thought has this been ...
... thought. This it is that is being dethroned in our day, and is being supplanted by a babel of clashing, irreconcilable utterances, often proceeding from the same quarters, even the same mouths. In no department of thought has this been ...
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... thought and the canons of criticism on which should repose the estimate of the poetic hierarchy , I will then ask the reader to observe if the conclusions leave the recognised Masters of Song - Homer , Eschylus , Euripides , Sophocles ...
... thought and the canons of criticism on which should repose the estimate of the poetic hierarchy , I will then ask the reader to observe if the conclusions leave the recognised Masters of Song - Homer , Eschylus , Euripides , Sophocles ...
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... thought and wide speculation be conspicuous in it. As Horace put it long ago in his Art of Poetry, Non satis est pulchra esse poemata: dulcia sunto. Almost as essential to poetry, and equally as regards poetry of the loftiest and poetry ...
... thought and wide speculation be conspicuous in it. As Horace put it long ago in his Art of Poetry, Non satis est pulchra esse poemata: dulcia sunto. Almost as essential to poetry, and equally as regards poetry of the loftiest and poetry ...
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... thoughts on former pleasures ran; I thought of Kilve's delightful shore, Our pleasant home when spring began, A long, long year before. A day it was when I could bear Some fond regrets to entertain; With so much happiness to spare, I ...
... thoughts on former pleasures ran; I thought of Kilve's delightful shore, Our pleasant home when spring began, A long, long year before. A day it was when I could bear Some fond regrets to entertain; With so much happiness to spare, I ...
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... thoughts , if we have any capacity for discrimination , that here we have poetry of little meaning , though the verse is exquisitely melodious ? This is , I conclude , what Arnold meant when he designated it , with a little exaggeration ...
... thoughts , if we have any capacity for discrimination , that here we have poetry of little meaning , though the verse is exquisitely melodious ? This is , I conclude , what Arnold meant when he designated it , with a little exaggeration ...
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