The Arnoldian, Volumes 7-9Department of English, U.S. Naval Academy, 1979 |
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... Poets Much has been written about the efficacy of Matthew Arnold's " touchstones " as a " useful help for discovering what ... poetic works more or less perfect . The analytic exercise was represented by the critical introductions , the ...
... Poets Much has been written about the efficacy of Matthew Arnold's " touchstones " as a " useful help for discovering what ... poetic works more or less perfect . The analytic exercise was represented by the critical introductions , the ...
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... poet , Gray holds for all ages to come his unassailable and sovereign station ; as a lyric poet , he is simply unworthy to sit at the feet of Collins " ( III , p . 279 ) , there is Arnold's " Still , with whatever drawbacks , he [ Gray ] ...
... poet , Gray holds for all ages to come his unassailable and sovereign station ; as a lyric poet , he is simply unworthy to sit at the feet of Collins " ( III , p . 279 ) , there is Arnold's " Still , with whatever drawbacks , he [ Gray ] ...
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... poets with Chaucer , because Chaucer's selections were edited by Ward and appeared as the first entry following the General In- troduction . Also , in a letter to his daughter , Fan , dated November , 1880 , Arnold notes that , " I have ...
... poets with Chaucer , because Chaucer's selections were edited by Ward and appeared as the first entry following the General In- troduction . Also , in a letter to his daughter , Fan , dated November , 1880 , Arnold notes that , " I have ...
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... poetic seriousness , and corresponding to this truth of substance he has an exquisite virtue of style and manner ... poets because his mental force is greater than theirs and carries him farther and straighter from the surface of things ...
... poetic seriousness , and corresponding to this truth of substance he has an exquisite virtue of style and manner ... poets because his mental force is greater than theirs and carries him farther and straighter from the surface of things ...
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... poets begins to be rife , and where the real estimate of them is not reached without difficulty . But in spite of ... poet . He con- cludes that Burns is " Not a classic , nor with the excellent spoudaiotes of the great classics , nor ...
... poets begins to be rife , and where the real estimate of them is not reached without difficulty . But in spite of ... poet . He con- cludes that Burns is " Not a classic , nor with the excellent spoudaiotes of the great classics , nor ...
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Page 47 - But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Page 70 - THE future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay.
Page 52 - He who knows that power is inborn, that he is weak because he has looked for good out of him and elsewhere, and, so perceiving, throws himself unhesitatingly on his thought, instantly rights himself, stands in the erect position, commands his limbs, works miracles; just as a man who stands on his feet is stronger than a man who stands on his head.
Page 29 - Paul, one feels inclined to rub one's eyes and ask oneself whether man is indeed a gentle and simple being, showing the traces of a noble and divine nature ; or an unhappy chained captive, labouring with groanings that cannot be uttered to free himself from the body of this death.
Page 25 - He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly, unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility.
Page 28 - OTHERS abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask — Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill, Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place, Spares but the cloudy border of his base To the...
Page 76 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
Page 28 - ... his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place, Spares but the cloudy border of his base To the foil'd searching of mortality ; And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at.