Convention and Revolt in PoetryHoughton Mifflin, 1919 - 346 páginas |
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... objects , but of the complex relations of objects . And the agency that moulds it is the ceaselessly active power that is special to poetry only in degree - imagination , that fuses the familiar and the strange , the thing I feel and ...
... objects , but of the complex relations of objects . And the agency that moulds it is the ceaselessly active power that is special to poetry only in degree - imagination , that fuses the familiar and the strange , the thing I feel and ...
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... object , and speech . And speech , like a shuttle , plays back and forth between the other two- the feeling and the thing - weaving a fabric from both , that is yet neither . For we must come at once to a second funda- mental attribute ...
... object , and speech . And speech , like a shuttle , plays back and forth between the other two- the feeling and the thing - weaving a fabric from both , that is yet neither . For we must come at once to a second funda- mental attribute ...
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... objects per se , but with ob- jects as they appear to us . It must paint the thing as it sees it — not , alas ! for the ' god of things as they are , who presumably sees them as they are , but for us mortals , who see them not at all as ...
... objects per se , but with ob- jects as they appear to us . It must paint the thing as it sees it — not , alas ! for the ' god of things as they are , who presumably sees them as they are , but for us mortals , who see them not at all as ...
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... object . And in 1842 the offending lines became : I came and sat Below the chestnuts , when their buds Were glistening to the breezy_blue . That gives the truth of appearance ; the truth of fact ( to wit , stickiness ) is at the moment ...
... object . And in 1842 the offending lines became : I came and sat Below the chestnuts , when their buds Were glistening to the breezy_blue . That gives the truth of appearance ; the truth of fact ( to wit , stickiness ) is at the moment ...
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... object of poetry , in the words of Wordsworth's famous pronouncement , is " truth ... carried alive into the heart by passion , " one element of poetic illusion is a heightening of actual fact . For emotion enhances reality , and truth ...
... object of poetry , in the words of Wordsworth's famous pronouncement , is " truth ... carried alive into the heart by passion , " one element of poetic illusion is a heightening of actual fact . For emotion enhances reality , and truth ...
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Página 270 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
Página 96 - THE skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crisped and sere, The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year ; It was hard by the dim lake of Auber, In the misty mid region of Weir: It was down by the dank tarn of Auber, In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.
Página 12 - I'll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster. Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men. Put out the light, and then put out the light.
Página 189 - THE gray sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low; And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their sleep, As I gain the cove with pushing prow, And quench its speed i
Página 188 - Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue! Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river! Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake! Far-swooping elbow'd earth— rich apple-blossom'd earth! Smile, for your lover comes.
Página 180 - Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.
Página 251 - Or the nard in the fire? Or have tasted the bag of the bee? O so white, O so soft, O so sweet is she!
Página 27 - Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.
Página 114 - WHAN that Aprille with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote. And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour...
Página 340 - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are ; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.