Lectures on the English Poets, and the English Comic WritersBell, 1869 - 232 páginas |
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William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt. CONTENTS . LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH POETS LECTURE I. - INTRODUCTORY . THE ENGLISH POETS . THE COMIC WRITERS . PAGE PAGE > On Poetry in General On Chaucer and Spenser On Shakspeare and Milton On ...
William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt. CONTENTS . LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH POETS LECTURE I. - INTRODUCTORY . THE ENGLISH POETS . THE COMIC WRITERS . PAGE PAGE > On Poetry in General On Chaucer and Spenser On Shakspeare and Milton On ...
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William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt. LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH POETS LECTURE I. - INTRODUCTORY . ON POETRY IN GENERAL . THE best general notion which I can give of poetry is , that it is the natural impression of any object or event ...
William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt. LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH POETS LECTURE I. - INTRODUCTORY . ON POETRY IN GENERAL . THE best general notion which I can give of poetry is , that it is the natural impression of any object or event ...
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... poetry , in its birth . If history is a grave study , poetry may be said to be a graver : its materials lie deeper , and are spread wider . History treats , for the most part , of the cumbrous and unwieldy masses of things , the empty ...
... poetry , in its birth . If history is a grave study , poetry may be said to be a graver : its materials lie deeper , and are spread wider . History treats , for the most part , of the cumbrous and unwieldy masses of things , the empty ...
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... poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . Such tricks hath strong imagination . " * If poetry is a dream , the business of life is much the same . If it is a fiction , made up of what we ...
... poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . Such tricks hath strong imagination . " * If poetry is a dream , the business of life is much the same . If it is a fiction , made up of what we ...
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... Poetry then is an imitation of nature , but the imagina- tion and the passions are a part of man's nature . We shape things according to our wishes and fancies , without poetry ; but poetry is the most emphatical language that can be ...
... Poetry then is an imitation of nature , but the imagina- tion and the passions are a part of man's nature . We shape things according to our wishes and fancies , without poetry ; but poetry is the most emphatical language that can be ...
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