Literary Reviews and CriticismsG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908 - 312 pagina's |
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Pagina 8
... imagination , and fire . Half a dozen good sonnets -the list was nearly exhaustive - out of a thousand ; and it is difficult to pick up a play of the time without finding more than one evidence of great , if irregular , power ! What ...
... imagination , and fire . Half a dozen good sonnets -the list was nearly exhaustive - out of a thousand ; and it is difficult to pick up a play of the time without finding more than one evidence of great , if irregular , power ! What ...
Pagina 17
... imagination and passion the connection is exceedingly close and compelling ; and a vast amount of poetry has been inspired by the subterraneous promptings of this emotion , as Mr. Santayana has justly indicated in his essay on the Sense ...
... imagination and passion the connection is exceedingly close and compelling ; and a vast amount of poetry has been inspired by the subterraneous promptings of this emotion , as Mr. Santayana has justly indicated in his essay on the Sense ...
Pagina 19
... imagination , and his riotous creativeness make up a bewildering and disconcerting personality . With the possible exception of a few short stories there is hardly a piece , certainly not a book , in the whole collec- tion which is a ...
... imagination , and his riotous creativeness make up a bewildering and disconcerting personality . With the possible exception of a few short stories there is hardly a piece , certainly not a book , in the whole collec- tion which is a ...
Pagina 21
... imagination , in which his friends unduly encour- aged him , that it is no longer possible to dis- entangle truth from - well , let us say , with Goethe , poetry . For , at worst , he was hardly more than his own dupe , confounding ...
... imagination , in which his friends unduly encour- aged him , that it is no longer possible to dis- entangle truth from - well , let us say , with Goethe , poetry . For , at worst , he was hardly more than his own dupe , confounding ...
Pagina 28
... imagination or transmutation - or , in a word , creation . And indeed such as he was , and we have seen that he was by no means faultless , he remains in his own way one of the very few geniuses who , like Shakespeare , are in any just ...
... imagination or transmutation - or , in a word , creation . And indeed such as he was , and we have seen that he was by no means faultless , he remains in his own way one of the very few geniuses who , like Shakespeare , are in any just ...
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Pagina 143 - Holds such an enmity with blood of man, That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body ; And, with a sudden vigour, it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood...
Pagina 172 - In vain, they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Pagina 175 - Learn hence for ancient rules a just esteem ;' To copy Nature is to copy them.
Pagina 171 - The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Pagina 161 - Blank verse is acknowledged to be too low for a poem — nay more, for a paper of verses; but if too low for an ordinary sonnet, how much more for tragedy, which is by Aristotle, in the dispute betwixt the epic poesy and the dramatic, for many reasons he there alleges, ranked above it?
Pagina 132 - Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn? And, little town, thy streets for evermore Will silent be; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return.
Pagina 296 - When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way ; you shall not discern the footprints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name ; — the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new.
Pagina 136 - ... who, by the mere strength of natural parts, and without any assistance of art or learning, have produced works that were the delight of their own times and the wonder of posterity.
Pagina 134 - Witness the lameness of their plots; many of which, especially those which they writ first (for even that age refined itself in some measure), were made up of some ridiculous incoherent story, which in one play many times took up the business of an age. I suppose I need not name Pericles, Prince of Tyre, nor the historical plays of Shakespeare: besides many of the rest, as the Winter's Tale, Love's Labour's Lost, Measure for Measure, which were either grounded on impossibilities, or at least so meanly...
Pagina 181 - Since I have raised to myself so great an Audience, I shall spare no Pains to make their Instruction agreeable, and their Diversion useful. For which Reasons I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways find their Account in the Speculation of the Day.