 More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete ; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced...  The Andover Review - Seite 1051891Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | James Hosmer Penniman - 1911 - 108 Seiten
...principles of action, and it inspires the emotions helpful in making principles operative, and he added, "We have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us." It is one of the fortunate miracles of literature that so much of the very best poetry is also within... | |
 | William Sharp - 1912 - 390 Seiten
...religion to-day is its unconscious poetry. . . . * In his General Introduction to Ward's English Poets. II Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete ; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. Science, I say, will appear incomplete... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1913 - 376 Seiten
...uses, and called to higher destinies, than those which in general men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind will discover that we have to...will appear incomplete ; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. Science, I say, will appear incomplete... | |
 | Frank Aydelotte - 1913 - 172 Seiten
...uses, and called to higher destinies, than those which in general men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind will discover that we have to...will appear incomplete ; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry." The three elements of culture, in... | |
 | W. C. Smith - 1913 - 194 Seiten
...writings may be more properly termed rhymed essays. But it is none the less true that it is the mission of poetry "to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. ' ' And it is not to be forgotten that poetic insight may make even didacticism attractive and imaginative.... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 346 Seiten
...and Higher called to higher destinies, than those which in general men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind will discover that we have to...will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. Science, I say, will appear incomplete... | |
 | George Stephen Painter - 1914 - 352 Seiten
...figurative and poetical language best meets our religious needs. As Mr. Matthew Arnold has told us : " We have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us." 3 Poetry is the best vehicle of the universal truth, and meets with the most immediate response and... | |
 | Alastair St. Clair Mackenzie - 1914 - 520 Seiten
...Lectures on Translating Homer (1861). The volume entitled Essays in Criticism (1865, 1888) suggests that " We have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us." According to Arnold, culture means " setting ourselves to ascertain what perfection is and to make... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1915 - 358 Seiten
...than those which in general men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind will dis cover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for...will appear incomplete ; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. Science, I say, will appear incomplete... | |
 | Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1917 - 346 Seiten
...; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion to-day is its unconscious poetry. . . . More and more mankind will discover that we have to...will appear incomplete; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry." Arnold here makes great claims for... | |
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