Prose of the Romantic PeriodCarl Woodring Houghton Mifflin, 1961 - 600 pages Prose excerpts from the works of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Walter Savage Landor, Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Thomas de Quincey, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and others. |
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... Poets , 1818 , which differs slightly in phrasing from the Second Edition of 1819 . The best general notion which I can give of poetry is , that it is the natural impression of any object or circumstance , by its vividness exciting an ...
... Poets , 1818 , which differs slightly in phrasing from the Second Edition of 1819 . The best general notion which I can give of poetry is , that it is the natural impression of any object or circumstance , by its vividness exciting an ...
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... poetry a portion of its once undivided audience . Then comes the silver age , or the poetry of civilized life . This poetry is of two kinds , imitative and original . The imitative consists in re- casting , and giving an exquisite ...
... poetry a portion of its once undivided audience . Then comes the silver age , or the poetry of civilized life . This poetry is of two kinds , imitative and original . The imitative consists in re- casting , and giving an exquisite ...
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... poetry , as the empire of facts had been before . In respect of the latter , the poet of the age of iron celebrates the achievements of his contemporaries ; the poet of the age of gold celebrates the heroes of the age of iron ; the poet ...
... poetry , as the empire of facts had been before . In respect of the latter , the poet of the age of iron celebrates the achievements of his contemporaries ; the poet of the age of gold celebrates the heroes of the age of iron ; the poet ...
Contents
JEREMY BENTHAM | 4 |
THOMAS PAINE | 11 |
THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS | 20 |
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