The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: Poems and talesRedfield, 1858 |
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Page vii
... soul . The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement . But all excitements are , through a psychal necessity , transient . That degree of ex- citement which would entitle a poem to be so called at all , cannot be ...
... soul . The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement . But all excitements are , through a psychal necessity , transient . That degree of ex- citement which would entitle a poem to be so called at all , cannot be ...
Page xi
... souls , we should immediately there discover that under the sun there neither exists nor can exist any work more thoroughly dignified- more supremely noble than this very poem - this poem per se— this poem which is a poem and nothing ...
... souls , we should immediately there discover that under the sun there neither exists nor can exist any work more thoroughly dignified- more supremely noble than this very poem - this poem per se— this poem which is a poem and nothing ...
Page xiii
... souls fittingly constituted - has given to the world all that which it ( the world ) has ever been enabled at once to ... soul most nearly attains the great end for which , when inspired by the Poetic Sentiment , it struggles - the ...
... souls fittingly constituted - has given to the world all that which it ( the world ) has ever been enabled at once to ... soul most nearly attains the great end for which , when inspired by the Poetic Sentiment , it struggles - the ...
Page xiv
... soul , which we recognise as the Poetic Sentiment , and which is so easily distin- guished from Truth , which is the satisfaction of the Reason , or from Passion , which is the excitement of the heart . I make Beauty , therefore - using ...
... soul , which we recognise as the Poetic Sentiment , and which is so easily distin- guished from Truth , which is the satisfaction of the Reason , or from Passion , which is the excitement of the heart . I make Beauty , therefore - using ...
Page xv
... soul cannot resist ; A feeling of sadness and longing , That is not akin to pain , And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain . Come , read to me some poem , Some simple and heartfelt lay , That shall soothe this restless ...
... soul cannot resist ; A feeling of sadness and longing , That is not akin to pain , And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain . Come , read to me some poem , Some simple and heartfelt lay , That shall soothe this restless ...
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