Specimens of Modern English Literary CriticismWilliam Tenney Brewster |
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... distinction of being at once the most conspicuous entity among the various branches of criticism and the most inaccurate and indefinite in the application of its tests . Literary criticism stumbles at the starting line in its attempt to ...
... distinction of being at once the most conspicuous entity among the various branches of criticism and the most inaccurate and indefinite in the application of its tests . Literary criticism stumbles at the starting line in its attempt to ...
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... distinction frequently drawn is that between destructive and constructive criticism . Destructive criticism is , as its name im- plies , that which aims to overthrow what has been regarded as established and accepted , a theory , a set ...
... distinction frequently drawn is that between destructive and constructive criticism . Destructive criticism is , as its name im- plies , that which aims to overthrow what has been regarded as established and accepted , a theory , a set ...
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... distinction , as Arnold would say . Courses in criticism , the writ- ing of criticism , have assumed a pretty definite place , just as a matter of fact , in many colleges ; they are found to be a profitable source of discipline , and ...
... distinction , as Arnold would say . Courses in criticism , the writ- ing of criticism , have assumed a pretty definite place , just as a matter of fact , in many colleges ; they are found to be a profitable source of discipline , and ...
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... distinction , after Wordsworth , between the Literature of Know- ledge , which he would call Literature only by courtesy , and the Literature of Power , which alone he regarded as Literature proper . My belief is that the distinction ...
... distinction , after Wordsworth , between the Literature of Know- ledge , which he would call Literature only by courtesy , and the Literature of Power , which alone he regarded as Literature proper . My belief is that the distinction ...
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... distinction are described most exactly by the phrase " impassioned prose . " Their peculiarity is not so much that ... distinctions of De Quincey's intellect that it could pass from that ordinary or discursive exer- cise of itself which ...
... distinction are described most exactly by the phrase " impassioned prose . " Their peculiarity is not so much that ... distinctions of De Quincey's intellect that it could pass from that ordinary or discursive exer- cise of itself which ...
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Page 289 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Page 299 - ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order...
Page 228 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 304 - And peace proclaims olives of endless age. Now with the drops of this most balmy time My love looks fresh, and Death to me subscribes, Since, spite of him, I'll live in this poor rhyme, While he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes: And thou in this shalt find thy monument, When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent.
Page 146 - Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow (This — all this — was in the olden Time long ago) And every gentle air that dallied, In that sweet day, Along the ramparts plumed and pallid, A winged odor went away.
Page 290 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Page 280 - But enough of this : there is such a variety of game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.
Page 266 - Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. Not the least obeisance made he; not...
Page 145 - TO HELEN. Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
Page 285 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...