Occasional Addresses, 1893-1916Macmillan, 1918 - 194 pages |
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... poets and great historians , but great critics also . It is not even true that in the intellectual world itself the division of labour has ever been carried to such a point that one set of men produce works of art , while another set ...
... poets and great historians , but great critics also . It is not even true that in the intellectual world itself the division of labour has ever been carried to such a point that one set of men produce works of art , while another set ...
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... poetry , as the vehicles and organs of aesthetic representation ; the one employing " forms and colours in space ... poet , have received no substantial modification or addition from later thinkers . Nor , again , can any educated ...
... poetry , as the vehicles and organs of aesthetic representation ; the one employing " forms and colours in space ... poet , have received no substantial modification or addition from later thinkers . Nor , again , can any educated ...
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... poetry has been from time to time confined to particular conditions of subject , structure , and measure , are well - known instances . The activity of the imagination is needed to correct this mechanical view , which treats it , to use ...
... poetry has been from time to time confined to particular conditions of subject , structure , and measure , are well - known instances . The activity of the imagination is needed to correct this mechanical view , which treats it , to use ...
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... poet " qu'on loue toujours parce qu'on ne lit guère . " Walter Scott , in 1810 , when he had just finished The Lady of the Lake- The Lay of the Last Minstrel and Marmion having already established his poetical reputation - said to James ...
... poet " qu'on loue toujours parce qu'on ne lit guère . " Walter Scott , in 1810 , when he had just finished The Lady of the Lake- The Lay of the Last Minstrel and Marmion having already established his poetical reputation - said to James ...
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... poetry of his time : " Keats , Shelley , and Words- worth are melting fast from the fields of vision " ; and the only two contemporary poets in whom he saw any " promise of immortality " he declared to be Rogers and Campbell . That this ...
... poetry of his time : " Keats , Shelley , and Words- worth are melting fast from the fields of vision " ; and the only two contemporary poets in whom he saw any " promise of immortality " he declared to be Rogers and Campbell . That this ...
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