... the grand work of literary genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis and discovery ; its gift lies in the faculty of being happily inspired by a certain intellectual and spiritual atmosphere, by a certain order of ideas, when it... Essays in Criticism - Page 6by Matthew Arnold - 1875 - 440 pagesFull view - About this book
| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1864 - 446 pages
...is rather the business of the philosopher ; the grand work of literary genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis and discovery ; its...beautiful works with them, in short. But it must have the atmosphere, it must find itself amidst the order of ideas, in order to work freely ; and these it is... | |
| Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1865 - 332 pages
...rather the business of 'the philosopher ; the grand work of literary genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis and discovery; its...divinely with these ideas, presenting them in the most eifective and attractive combinations, making beautiful works with them, in short. But it must have... | |
| 1865 - 540 pages
...grand work of literary genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis and di-icovory ; its gift lies in the faculty of being happily inspired...when it finds itself in them : of dealing divinely wiih th.se idea«, presenting them in the most effective and attractive combinations, making beautiful... | |
| English literature - 1865 - 538 pages
...is rather the business of the philosopher ; the grand work of literary genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis and discovery ; its...being happily inspired by a certain intellectual and spiritnal atmosphere, by a certain order of ideas, when it finds itself in them : of dealing divinely... | |
| 1865 - 1022 pages
...is rather the business of the philosopher ; the grand work of literary genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis and ' discovery ; its gift lies in the faculty of bciii«; happily inspired by a certain intellectual and spiritual atmosphere, by a certain order of... | |
| Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1868 - 384 pages
...instincts : for we agree with a liberal and acute critic, when he says that the gift of literary genius ' lies in the faculty of being happily inspired by a...spiritual atmosphere — by a certain order of ideas ; of dealing divinely with these ideas, presenting them in the most effective and attractive combinations,... | |
| Henry Theodore Tuckerman - Arts - 1868 - 382 pages
...happily inspired by a certain intellectual and spiritual atmosphere — by a certain order of ideas; of dealing divinely with these ideas, presenting them...and attractive combinations, making beautiful works of them.' It is a new and glorious era in our experience of books when the vital significance of authorship... | |
| Matthew Arnold (Dichter, England) - Criticism - 1869 - 438 pages
...the grand work of literary genius is a work of synthesis, and exposition, not of analysis and * ?/f discovery ; its gift lies in the faculty of being...works with them, in short. But it must have ' the atmosphere, it must find itself_amjdst the order of_ ideas, in order to work freely; and these it is... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1870 - 752 pages
...pertinently, that "creative literary genius does not principally show itself in discovering new ideas, ' but ' its gift lies in the faculty of being happily inspired...by a certain intellectual and spiritual atmosphere, which finds itself in them." " This is the reason why creative epochs iu literature are so rare," "... | |
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