Wordsworth's Theory of Poetic Diction: A Study of the Historical and Personal Background of the Lyrical BalladsYale University Press, 1917 - 191 страници |
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... I. 393 , notes I and 6 , for a list of some of the numerous references in the eighteenth century to Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness . artistic Pope took up the good work that the triumph Snob 23 POETIC DICTION IN ' MODERN TIMES '
... I. 393 , notes I and 6 , for a list of some of the numerous references in the eighteenth century to Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness . artistic Pope took up the good work that the triumph Snob 23 POETIC DICTION IN ' MODERN TIMES '
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... artistic Pope took up the good work that the triumph of the new style was complete . In the development of the art and fame of Pope , and the reaction against Pope , are summed up the whole history of English literature between Milton ...
... artistic Pope took up the good work that the triumph of the new style was complete . In the development of the art and fame of Pope , and the reaction against Pope , are summed up the whole history of English literature between Milton ...
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... artistic beauty , it helped to establish a new ideal . The sins of English prose were the sins of English verse also ; and Sprat's criticism of the misuse of ornament in the one was equally applicable to the other . The ornaments of ...
... artistic beauty , it helped to establish a new ideal . The sins of English prose were the sins of English verse also ; and Sprat's criticism of the misuse of ornament in the one was equally applicable to the other . The ornaments of ...
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... artistic impulse seemed to predominate over every other . All his joy and ambition lay in the skilful adaptation of means to the attainment of a desired end . But he readily accepted the end proposed to him by others . In an age which ...
... artistic impulse seemed to predominate over every other . All his joy and ambition lay in the skilful adaptation of means to the attainment of a desired end . But he readily accepted the end proposed to him by others . In an age which ...
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... artistic ambitions and his wonderful skill in imitation been inspired by other models than Waller , and Dryden , and Boileau , England might have lost a sparkling satirist , and gained a lyrical poet . This Wordsworth always realized ...
... artistic ambitions and his wonderful skill in imitation been inspired by other models than Waller , and Dryden , and Boileau , England might have lost a sparkling satirist , and gained a lyrical poet . This Wordsworth always realized ...
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Страница 33 - Show'd us that France had something to admire. Not but the Tragic spirit was our own, And full in Shakespear, fair in Otway shone: But Otway fail'd to polish or refine, And fluent Shakespear scarce effac'da line.
Страница 36 - But true expression, like the' unchanging sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; It gilds all objects, but it alters none. Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent, as more suitable ; A vile conceit in pompous words...
Страница 127 - The principal object, then, proposed in these poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them throughout, as far as was possible, in a selection of language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect...
Страница 157 - THERE is a Thorn — it looks so old, In truth, you'd find it hard to say How it could ever have been young, It looks so old and grey. Not higher than a two years...
Страница vii - ... the original gift of spreading the tone, the atmosphere, and with it the depth and height of the ideal world around forms, incidents, and situations, of which, for the common view, custom had bedimmed all the lustre, had dried up the sparkle and the dew drops.
Страница 116 - Cultivate simplicity, Coleridge, or rather, I should say, banish elaborateness; for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart, and carries into daylight its own modest buds and genuine, sweet, and clear flowers of expression. I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus.
Страница 69 - When up the lonely brooks on rainy days Angling I went, or trod the trackless hills By mists bewildered, suddenly mine eyes Have glanced upon him distant a few steps, In size a giant, stalking through thick fog, His sheep like Greenland bears; or, as he stepped Beyond the boundary line of some hillshadow, His form hath flashed upon me, glorified By the deep radiance of the setting sun...
Страница 85 - DURING the last year of my residence at Cambridge, I became acquainted with Mr. Wordsworth's first publication entitled "Descriptive Sketches"; and seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original poetic genius above the literary horizon more evidently announced.
Страница xii - I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation, that sort of pleasure and that quantity of pleasure may be imparted, which a Poet may rationally endeavour to impart.
Страница 173 - IF from the public way you turn your steps Up the tumultuous brook of Green-head Ghyll, You will suppose that with an upright path Your feet must struggle ; in such bold ascent The pastoral Mountains front you, face to face. But, courage ! for around that boisterous Brook The mountains have all opened out themselves, And made a hidden valley of their own. No habitation can be seen ; but they Who journey thither find themselves alone With a few sheep, with rocks and stones, and kites That overhead...