...Blackmore in the seventeenth. time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay," or when he says that "[more] and more mankind will discover that we have...interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. [For] without poetry our science will appear incomplete; and most of what now passes with us for religion...

...age of crumbling creeds, he thought that poetry would replace religion; more and more, readers would "turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us." For that reason readers had to understand how to distinguish the best poetry from the inferior. Lastly...

...ideas and responses." Richards endorsed a hope Matthew Arnold had expressed fifty years before — that "what now passes for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry" — and he was echoing Arnold when he insisted that poetry "is capable of saving us." ("It is like...

...together. The following passage from Arnold's "The Study of Poetry" (1880) reveals his basic stance. "More and more mankind will discover that we have...will appear incomplete; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry" (The Norton Anthology of English Literature,...

...its head where the religions relax their hold," Nietzsche observes (HH, 81); and Arnold maintains, "more and more mankind will discover that we have...interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us" (CPW, 9:161). Speaking of the inadequacy of most popular values, each addresses the need to transmit...

...an argument, among other things, for the need for firm literary and aesthetic standards of judgment: "More and more mankind will discover that we have...interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. ... [To] be capable of fulfilling such high destinies, [poetry] must be poetry of a high order of excellence....

...of second coming at the end of a materialistic era and that the new faith would be poetic, so that "more and more mankind will discover that we have...to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us."4 Whether or not we agree with Arnold, share his fears at the dissolution of Christianity or the...

...Pythian 8, section 5. The translation is by CM Bowra. See Pindar, The Odes (Penguin, 1969), 237. p. 152) 'More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry . . .': Arnold. Essays in Criticism, 29o. p. 152) Arnold's claim that 'the cause in which I fight is,...

...Leavis - come to occupy the discursive space formerly taken by religion. As Matthew Arnold put it: "More and more mankind will discover that we have...will appear incomplete; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry."13 One wonders if art can really take...

...Poetry" (Essays in Criticism: Second Series, 1888), he makes an immense claim on behalf of '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 1970: 340) We can see here...