The Definition of Poetry: An Essay

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Phoenix Book and Job Printing Company, 1873 - 29 pagina's
 

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Pagina 18 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Pagina 19 - The end of poetry, we take it, is to please - and the name, we think, is strictly applicable to every metrical composition from which we receive pleasure, without any laborious exercise of the understanding. This pleasure, may, in general, be analyzed into three parts - that which we receive from the excitement of Passion or emotion - that which is derived from the play of Imagination, or the easy exercise of Reason - and that which...
Pagina 18 - Nature ; or, as another philosopher has said, " poetry doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shows of things to the desire of the mind.
Pagina 29 - ... poetry is beautiful thought, expressed in appropriate language — having no reference to the useful...

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