 For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, — a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.  The New Monthly Magazine - Seite 4121853Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1855 - 448 Seiten
...something of our own; and so mis-write the poem." Here also is another definition of true poetry ; — "a thought so passionate and alive, that like the spirit of a plant, or an animal, it has an arehiteeture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing." Bnt in aeeordanee with the quotation... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 Seiten
...justifies himself by saying, "It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, — a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing," And yet, strange as the metre may be, we remember no poet whose lines more pointedly impress themselves... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 286 Seiten
...of the verses is primary. For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, — a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 Seiten
...the verses is primary. " For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, — a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 Seiten
...of the verses is primary. For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, — a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 Seiten
...of the verses is primary. For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, — a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is... | |
 | 1875 - 852 Seiten
...above the level of mediocrity, or contain — as Emerson says in the extract quoted by the author — " a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing." Poems and Translations. By W. Starkey. Dublin : G. Herbert. London : Simpkin and Co., 1875. — Most... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1875 - 192 Seiten
...)f^^"f""> MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. "It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem; — a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the...architecture of its own, and, adorns Nature with a nem thing And this is tlte reward : that the ideal ihall be the real to thee, and the impressions of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 380 Seiten
...the finish versesjs_primary. For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, — a thought so' passionate and alive that like the spirit...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 382 Seiten
...of the verses is primary. For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, — a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is... | |
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