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... truth ? Yes , if we choose to put it so . But fiction is not the opposite of truth . Fiction , to be sure , means something that is not fact , something that has no exact counterpart in the actual world , and poetry pre- sents not a ...
... truth ? Yes , if we choose to put it so . But fiction is not the opposite of truth . Fiction , to be sure , means something that is not fact , something that has no exact counterpart in the actual world , and poetry pre- sents not a ...
Page ix
... truth . The hell and purgatory and paradise which Dante describes in such concrete terms in his Divina Commedia ... truth in the highest sense - truth that is not to be tested by the low and imperfect test of mere physical actuality . In ...
... truth . The hell and purgatory and paradise which Dante describes in such concrete terms in his Divina Commedia ... truth in the highest sense - truth that is not to be tested by the low and imperfect test of mere physical actuality . In ...
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... truth the deep significance of which is in itself a beauty . If it stops short with the presentation of deformity , it is not poetry . The wrath of Achilles is redeemed by his friendship for Patroclus and his compassion on Priam . The ...
... truth the deep significance of which is in itself a beauty . If it stops short with the presentation of deformity , it is not poetry . The wrath of Achilles is redeemed by his friendship for Patroclus and his compassion on Priam . The ...
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... only down to the same point . Such a general truth as " Slow rises worth by poverty depressed " is poetic material because it is based upon observation of the more immediate kind , and is readily The Study of Poetry 3.
... only down to the same point . Such a general truth as " Slow rises worth by poverty depressed " is poetic material because it is based upon observation of the more immediate kind , and is readily The Study of Poetry 3.
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... truth . Ideal truth is indeed one of its essential characteristics . When Wordsworth makes Nature say of Lucy that " Beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face , " we are at first startled as by something merely fanciful ...
... truth . Ideal truth is indeed one of its essential characteristics . When Wordsworth makes Nature say of Lucy that " Beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face , " we are at first startled as by something merely fanciful ...
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anapestic Arethuse beauty beneath birds bonnie bower breast breath bright Brignall clouds County Guy dactylic dark dead dear death delight dost doth dream earth ELIZABETH OF BOHEMIA eyes fair fancy fear feel flowers frae gentle glory Gray green H. F. Lyte happy hast hath Hazeldean hear heard heart heaven hill iambic pentameter kiss leaves light live look'd Lord Byron Love's lovers Lycidas lyre lyric Milton mind morn mountains Muse ne'er never night numbers Nymph o'er P. B. Shelley passion Pindaric pleasure poem poet poetry rhyme rose round seem'd shade Shakespeare sigh silent sing sleep smile soft song sorrow soul sound spirit Spring stanzas star sweet tears tell thee thine things thou art thought tree trochaic trochee Twas verse voice waly waly waves weep wild winds wings Wordsworth Yarrow youth
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Page 217 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Page 327 - EARTH has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning ; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth at his own sweet...
Page 216 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 333 - Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. Will no one tell me what she sings? — Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day?
Page 293 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Page 325 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan...
Page 245 - Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd...
Page 288 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Page 71 - Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end ; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
Page 294 - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.