Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan Company, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 58
... Progress of Poesy is a meditation about the fundamental significance of art . Not at all the same sort of medi- tation though . The difference between the Augustan and Romantic attitude to life could not appear more vividly than in the ...
... Progress of Poesy is a meditation about the fundamental significance of art . Not at all the same sort of medi- tation though . The difference between the Augustan and Romantic attitude to life could not appear more vividly than in the ...
Page 65
... Progress of Poesy is like nothing so much as some big decorative painting of the period in which , posed gracefully on an amber - coloured cloud , allegorical figures representing the arts and the passions offer ceremonious homage to ...
... Progress of Poesy is like nothing so much as some big decorative painting of the period in which , posed gracefully on an amber - coloured cloud , allegorical figures representing the arts and the passions offer ceremonious homage to ...
Page 66
... Progress of Poesy : for it is in these Pindaric Odes that Gray's virtuosity appears most conspicuously . They are not , however , his most successful works . For in them he is dealing with subject - matter which does reveal his ...
... Progress of Poesy : for it is in these Pindaric Odes that Gray's virtuosity appears most conspicuously . They are not , however , his most successful works . For in them he is dealing with subject - matter which does reveal his ...
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