...writes (TVte Poet) that what makes a poem is not metres, but "a thought so passionate and alive that ... it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing." 57. Cf. Emerson's lines To JW : — " Life is too short to waste In critic peep or cynic bark." Why...

...of the verses is primary. For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, — a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is...

...of the verses is primary. For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, — a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is...

...— that in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form — •' л thought so passiouato and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, nuil adorns nature with a new thing." How plainly Mr. Willis is thought a contemporary, not an eternal...

...the songs of the nations." — " It is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem — a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing." — " In our way of talking we say, ' That is yours, this is mine,' but the Poet knows well that it...

...of the verses is primary. For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, — a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is...

...within. It was the same in poetry, which was not rythmic or cadenced words, but a voice of the heart—" a thought so passionate and alive, that like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it had an architecture of its own." In every one of the arts, the same law held sway : the elements used...

...standing and sitting in the walks and terraces. " We hear, through all the varied music, the ground-tone of conventional life. Our poets are men of talents...contemporary, not an eternal man,* by the scribe of the Biglow Papers, Miss Bremer's Apollo's Head, let these lines testify : * In appraising himself, by- tue-by,...

...standing and sitting in the walks and terraces. " We hear, through all the varied music, the ground-tone of conventional life. Our poets are men of talents...contemporary, not an eternal man,* by the scribe of the Biglow Papers, Miss Bremer's Apollo's Head, let these lines testify : There is Willis, so natty and jaunty...

...poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music. The argument is secondary, the fmish of the verses is primary" — in disregard of the...contemporary, not an eternal man,* by the scribe of the Biglow Papers, Miss Bremer's Apollo's Head, 'let these lines testify : * In appraising himself, by-the-by,...