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... .... IV . THE MEDIEVAL SPIRIT AND THE REVIVAL 123 V. THE CLASSICAL SCHOOL AND THE NEW REVIVAL 146 VI . Coleridge 179 -VII . WORDSWORTH 208 VIII . KEATS IX , BYRON X. SHELLEY 242 269 298 AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF POETRY . CHAPTER I.
... .... IV . THE MEDIEVAL SPIRIT AND THE REVIVAL 123 V. THE CLASSICAL SCHOOL AND THE NEW REVIVAL 146 VI . Coleridge 179 -VII . WORDSWORTH 208 VIII . KEATS IX , BYRON X. SHELLEY 242 269 298 AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF POETRY . CHAPTER I.
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... Wordsworth in several pas- sages uses a similar expression . He speaks- " Of all the mighty world Of eye and ear , both what they half create And what perceive . ' And again— " My voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual mind to ...
... Wordsworth in several pas- sages uses a similar expression . He speaks- " Of all the mighty world Of eye and ear , both what they half create And what perceive . ' And again— " My voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual mind to ...
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... Wordsworth , which almost rival Plato's vision in imaginative sublimity : - " Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting : The soul that rises with us , our life's star , Hath had elsewhere its setting , And cometh from afar : Not in ...
... Wordsworth , which almost rival Plato's vision in imaginative sublimity : - " Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting : The soul that rises with us , our life's star , Hath had elsewhere its setting , And cometh from afar : Not in ...
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... Wordsworth , " is to treat of things , not as they are , but as they appear , not as they exist of themselves , but as they seem to exist to the senses and to the passions . " Shelley , too , calls poetry " the record of the best and ...
... Wordsworth , " is to treat of things , not as they are , but as they appear , not as they exist of themselves , but as they seem to exist to the senses and to the passions . " Shelley , too , calls poetry " the record of the best and ...
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... Wordsworth once more defining poetry as the record of " emotion recollected in tran- quility . " I cannot but think that Dante's words have a similar meaning - namely , that the impression made by emotion on his mind was recollected and ...
... Wordsworth once more defining poetry as the record of " emotion recollected in tran- quility . " I cannot but think that Dante's words have a similar meaning - namely , that the impression made by emotion on his mind was recollected and ...
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Page 83 - I see before me the Gladiator lie; He leans upon his hand, — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony. And his drooped head sinks gradually low, And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow, From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him, — he is gone Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 198 - Lyrical Ballads, in which it was agreed that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic — yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief, for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Page 268 - He is made one with Nature. There is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder to the song of night's sweet bird. He is a presence to be felt and known In darkness and in light, from herb and stone ; Spreading itself where'er that Power may move Which has withdrawn his being to its own, Which wields the world with never-wearied love, Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above.
Page 102 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 260 - Forlorn ! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self ! Adieu ! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. Adieu ! adieu ! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades : Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music: — do I wake or sleep?
Page 214 - The immeasurable height Of woods decaying, never to be decayed, The stationary blasts of waterfalls, And in the narrow rent at every turn Winds thwarting winds, bewildered and forlorn, The torrents shooting from the clear blue sky...
Page 119 - I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
Page 309 - And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's nakedness Pass, till the Spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of green access Where, like an infant's smile, over the dead, A light of laughing flowers along the grass is spread.
Page 235 - I WANDERED lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden daffodils, Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
Page 17 - REYNOLDS, Rev. JW— The Supernatural in Nature. A Verification by Free Use of Science. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged, Demy 8vo, 14^.