Lectures on the English PoetsWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 255 páginas |
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William Hazlitt. CONTENTS . LECTURE I. Introductory . - On Poetry in general LECTURE II . On Chaucer and Spenser 23 LECTURE III . On Shakspeare and Milton 52 LECTURE IV . On Dryden and Pope 82 LECTURE V. On Thomson and Cowper 102 LECTURE ...
William Hazlitt. CONTENTS . LECTURE I. Introductory . - On Poetry in general LECTURE II . On Chaucer and Spenser 23 LECTURE III . On Shakspeare and Milton 52 LECTURE IV . On Dryden and Pope 82 LECTURE V. On Thomson and Cowper 102 LECTURE ...
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William 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 , by its vividness ...
William 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 , by its vividness ...
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... poetry . It is not a branch of authorship : it is " the stuff of which our life is made . " The rest is " mere oblivion , " a dead letter : for all that is worth re- membering in life is the poetry of it . Fear is poetry , hope is poetry ...
... poetry . It is not a branch of authorship : it is " the stuff of which our life is made . " The rest is " mere oblivion , " a dead letter : for all that is worth re- membering in life is the poetry of it . Fear is poetry , hope is poetry ...
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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 represents forms chiefly as they suggest other forms ; feelings , as they suggest forms or other feelings . Poetry puts a spirit of life and motion into the universe . It describes the flowing , not the fixed . It does not define ...
... Poetry represents forms chiefly as they suggest other forms ; feelings , as they suggest forms or other feelings . Poetry puts a spirit of life and motion into the universe . It describes the flowing , not the fixed . It does not define ...
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absurdity admiration affectation amusing appearance artificial beauty Ben Jonson blank verse Boccaccio character Chaucer circumstances comedy common critics delight describes Don Quixote double entendre dramatic elegance equal excellence face fancy feeling flowers folly genius Gil Blas give grace heart Hogarth Hudibras human humour idea imagination imitation instance interest kind Lady language laugh LECTURE lively look Lord Byron lover ludicrous Lycidas manners Milton mind moral Muse nature never objects painted Paradise Lost passion person picture play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope prose reader refinement ridiculous satire scene School for Scandal seems sense sentiment Shakspeare Shakspeare's sort soul Spenser spirit Stoops to Conquer story style sweet Tartuffe Tatler thee things thou thought tion Tom Jones truth turn verse vice vulgar whole wild words Wordsworth