The Authority of Criticism, and Other EssaysC. Scribner's Sons, 1899 - 291 Seiten |
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... facts about the " evolution of genres " before they form an opinion of the general value and interest to themselves of the literature with which they have been brought in contact . In this case , however , we do apply a part at least ...
... facts about the " evolution of genres " before they form an opinion of the general value and interest to themselves of the literature with which they have been brought in contact . In this case , however , we do apply a part at least ...
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... fact as well determined as the existence of the various mental faculties . That we do not know the ultimate nature of art in the one case , or of mind in the other , does not prove that we have no need of the hypotheses of criticism and ...
... fact as well determined as the existence of the various mental faculties . That we do not know the ultimate nature of art in the one case , or of mind in the other , does not prove that we have no need of the hypotheses of criticism and ...
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... fact it can be easily shown that the distinctions and gradations sanctioned by the aujourd'hui que certains poètes , comme Dante et Shakspere , certains compositeurs , comme Mozart et Beethoven , tien- nent la première place dans leur ...
... fact it can be easily shown that the distinctions and gradations sanctioned by the aujourd'hui que certains poètes , comme Dante et Shakspere , certains compositeurs , comme Mozart et Beethoven , tien- nent la première place dans leur ...
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... facts we must infer that there are some prin- ciples of criticism so binding upon us that we ought to endeavor not only to make an individual application of them , but also to inculcate them in our children ; others which , as Americans ...
... facts we must infer that there are some prin- ciples of criticism so binding upon us that we ought to endeavor not only to make an individual application of them , but also to inculcate them in our children ; others which , as Americans ...
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... important and a province as extended as the academic critic has . There can scarcely be two opinions with regard to this matter . The fact that there are impressionist critics who are widely read and enjoyed seems 25 AUTHORITY OF CRITICISM.
... important and a province as extended as the academic critic has . There can scarcely be two opinions with regard to this matter . The fact that there are impressionist critics who are widely read and enjoyed seems 25 AUTHORITY OF CRITICISM.
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academic critic admirers Æneid æsthetic emotions æsthetic pleasure æsthetic sense Alfred de Musset appeal artist beauty Byron character charm cism classics Conington contemporaries delightful Divine Comedy Don Juan dramas duty emotive words endeavor English essay euphony fact feel fiction genius genres George Sand give harmony hence history of literature Horace ideal impressionist intellectual judgment knowledge least less litera literary literature lyric poetry lyrical matter Matthew Arnold means ment merely Milton mind moral emotions Musset nature noble novel opinion ourselves Paradise Lost Parisina passages passion perhaps person plainly poem poet poet's poetic praise present Prometheus Unbound prose pure question reader reason regard rhyme rhythm rhythmical romantic seems Shakspere Shelley Shelleyans soul sound spirit stanza sure sustained Taine teach teachers Tennyson thing thought tion tive translator true truth ture Ulalume uncon verse whole Wordsworth writer written
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Seite 88 - What thou art, we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody.
Seite 252 - Ay me! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away, where'er thy bones are hurled, Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides, Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide Visit's! the bottom of the monstrous world...
Seite 277 - For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance : but from him that hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken away.
Seite 146 - Literature consists of all the books — and they are not so many — where moral truth and human passion are touched with a certain largeness, sanity, and attraction of form.
Seite 62 - Midst others of less note, came one frail Form, A phantom among men; companionless As the last cloud of an expiring storm Whose thunder is its knell; he, as I guess, Had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness, Actaeon-like, and now he fled astray With feeble steps o'er the world's wilderness, And his own thoughts, along that rugged way, Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey.
Seite 252 - Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides, Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world; Or whether thou, to our moist vows denied, Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old. Where the great Vision of the guarded mount Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold, — Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth ; And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth.
Seite 40 - The man Shelley, in very truth, is not entirely sane, and Shelley's poetry is not entirely sane either. The Shelley of actual life is a vision of beauty and radiance, indeed, but availing nothing, effecting nothing. And in poetry, no less than in life, he is * a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.
Seite 194 - Quid si prisca redit Venus Diductosque jugo cogit aeneo, Si flava excutitur Chloe Rejectaeque patet janua Lydiae?
Seite 74 - From mornin' sun till dine; But seas between us braid hae roar'd Sin auld lang syne . . . where he is as lovely as he is sound. But perhaps it is by the perfection of soundness of his lighter and archer masterpieces that he is poetically most wholesome for us. For the votary misled by a personal estimate of Shelley, as so many of us have been, are, and will be, — of that beautiful spirit building his many-colored haze of words and images Pinnacled dim in the intense inane — no contact can be...
Seite 72 - ... by expressing, with inspired conviction, the ideas and laws of the inward world of man's in.] MAURICE DB GU&UN. Ill moral and spiritual nature.