Lectures on the English PoetsJ. Templeman, 1841 - 407 páginas |
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William Hazlitt. ΤΟ BARRY CORNWALL , WHOM THE AUTHOR OF THESE LECTURES ESTEEMED AS A MAN AND ADMIRED AS A POET , This Volume is Dedicated . CONTENTS . LECTURE I. INTRODUCTORY . - ON POETRY IN.
William Hazlitt. ΤΟ BARRY CORNWALL , WHOM THE AUTHOR OF THESE LECTURES ESTEEMED AS A MAN AND ADMIRED AS A POET , This Volume is Dedicated . CONTENTS . LECTURE I. INTRODUCTORY . - ON POETRY IN.
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... poet , in fact , when he first plays at hide - and - seek , or repeats the story of Jack the Giant - killer ; the shepherd - boy is a poet , when he first crowns his mistress with a garland of flowers ; the countryman , when he stops to ...
... poet , in fact , when he first plays at hide - and - seek , or repeats the story of Jack the Giant - killer ; the shepherd - boy is a poet , when he first crowns his mistress with a garland of flowers ; the countryman , when he stops to ...
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... poet does no more than describe what all the others think and act . If his art is folly and madness , it is folly and madness at second hand . " There is warrant for it . " Poets alone have not " such seething brains , such shaping ...
... poet does no more than describe what all the others think and act . If his art is folly and madness , it is folly and madness at second hand . " There is warrant for it . " Poets alone have not " such seething brains , such shaping ...
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... poet ? Plato banished the poets from his Commonwealth , lest their descriptions of the natural man should spoil his mathematical man , who was to be without passions and affec- tions , who was neither to laugh nor weep , to feel sorrow ...
... poet ? Plato banished the poets from his Commonwealth , lest their descriptions of the natural man should spoil his mathematical man , who was to be without passions and affec- tions , who was neither to laugh nor weep , to feel sorrow ...
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... poet to describe the most striking and vivid impressions which things can be supposed to make upon the mind in the language of common conversation . Let who will strip nature of the colours and the shapes of fancy , the poet is not ...
... poet to describe the most striking and vivid impressions which things can be supposed to make upon the mind in the language of common conversation . Let who will strip nature of the colours and the shapes of fancy , the poet is not ...
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