Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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Page xvi
... pleasure with truth , by calling imagination to the help of reason . ' We do well to keep this definition in our ... pleasure ' : poetry that gives no pleasure is not for him . For this reason he prefers rhyme to blank verse ; for this ...
... pleasure with truth , by calling imagination to the help of reason . ' We do well to keep this definition in our ... pleasure ' : poetry that gives no pleasure is not for him . For this reason he prefers rhyme to blank verse ; for this ...
Page 131
... Pleasure and terrour are indeed the genuine sources of poetry ; but poetical pleasure must be such as human imagination can at least conceive , and poetical terrour such as human strength and fortitude may combat . The good and evil of ...
... Pleasure and terrour are indeed the genuine sources of poetry ; but poetical pleasure must be such as human imagination can at least conceive , and poetical terrour such as human strength and fortitude may combat . The good and evil of ...
Page 148
... pleasure is variety . Uniformity must tire at last , though it be uniformity of excel- lence . We love to expect ; and , when expectation is disappointed or gratified , we want to be again expecting . For this impatience of the present ...
... pleasure is variety . Uniformity must tire at last , though it be uniformity of excel- lence . We love to expect ; and , when expectation is disappointed or gratified , we want to be again expecting . For this impatience of the present ...
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