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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... with the speaker's own feelings is true poetry . The lover , equally with the poet , speaks of the auburn tresses of his mistress as locks of shining gold , because the least tinge of yellow in the hair has , ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
... with the speaker's own feelings is true poetry . The lover , equally with the poet , speaks of the auburn tresses of his mistress as locks of shining gold , because the least tinge of yellow in the hair has , ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
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