Poets on PoetryCharles Norman Free Press, 1962 - 384 pages |
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Page 152
... excitement is produced be in themselves powerful , or the images and feelings have an undue proportion of pain connected with them , there is some danger that the excitement may be carried beyond its proper bounds . Now the co ...
... excitement is produced be in themselves powerful , or the images and feelings have an undue proportion of pain connected with them , there is some danger that the excitement may be carried beyond its proper bounds . Now the co ...
Page 273
... excitement . But all ex- citements are , through a psychal necessity , transient . That degree of excitement which would entitle a poem to be so called at all , cannot be sustained throughout a composition of any great length . After ...
... excitement . But all ex- citements are , through a psychal necessity , transient . That degree of excitement which would entitle a poem to be so called at all , cannot be sustained throughout a composition of any great length . After ...
Page 290
... excitement which he induces is , at all times , the most intense - but because it is , at all times , the most ethereal -in other words , the most elevating and the most pure . No poet is so little of the earth , earthy . What I am ...
... excitement which he induces is , at all times , the most intense - but because it is , at all times , the most ethereal -in other words , the most elevating and the most pure . No poet is so little of the earth , earthy . What I am ...
Common terms and phrases
action admiration Aeneas Æneid ancient Aristotle beauty cæsura called cause character Chaucer comedy composition criticism dæmon delight diction divine doth drama E. E. Cummings effect emotion English English poetry Ennius estimate Euripides evil excellent excitement expression eyes faculty feelings genius Greek hath heart Homer human images imagination imitation judgment kind knowledge language langue d'oïl learning less literature Lucretius manner matter meaning metaphysical poets metre Milton mind modern moral nature never object observe opinion passages passions perfect perhaps persons Petrarch philosopher Plato Plautus plays pleasure Plutarch poem poesy poet poet's poetic poetry praise present principle produced prose reader reason rhyme sense sentiments Shakespeare sith soul speak speech spirit style taste things thou thought tion tragedy true truly truth verse Virgil virtue Wallace Stevens words Wordsworth write