Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page xii
... poetry has become the exercise of every elegant imagination . The fact is that poetry is capable of becoming too much a thing of fashion -to its own undoing . When every man of culture writes verse , the standard of poetic excellence is ...
... poetry has become the exercise of every elegant imagination . The fact is that poetry is capable of becoming too much a thing of fashion -to its own undoing . When every man of culture writes verse , the standard of poetic excellence is ...
Page 133
... poetry . But perhaps , of poetry as a mental operation , metre or musick is no necessary adjunct : it is however by the musick of metre that poetry has been discriminated in all languages ; and in languages melodiously constructed with ...
... poetry . But perhaps , of poetry as a mental operation , metre or musick is no necessary adjunct : it is however by the musick of metre that poetry has been discriminated in all languages ; and in languages melodiously constructed with ...
Page 203
... poetry can confer . The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention as , by producing something unexpected , surprises and delights . The topicks of devotion are few , and being few are universally known ; but , few as they are ...
... poetry can confer . The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention as , by producing something unexpected , surprises and delights . The topicks of devotion are few , and being few are universally known ; but , few as they are ...
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