Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Page 211
... 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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Samuel Johnson. From poetry the reader justly expects , and from good poetry always obtains , the enlargement of his comprehension and elevation of his fancy ; but this is rarely to be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion ...
Samuel Johnson. From poetry the reader justly expects , and from good poetry always obtains , the enlargement of his comprehension and elevation of his fancy ; but this is rarely to be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion ...
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