Lord Morley's Criticism of English Poetry and Prose ...Princeton University, 1921 - 62 páginas |
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Lord Morley's Criticism of English Poetry and Prose ... James Dow McCallum Visualização integral - 1921 |
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admits appeal appreciation aspirations attitude beauty belief Benthamite Brunetière Byron caitiffs character cism cizes conception consider criticism of poetry definition Diderot discussion eighteenth century element Emerson emotional essay on Carlyle evidence expression faith feeling force Furthermore George Eliot Harriet Martineau human idea Idem imagination individual influence inspiration intellectual interest intuitive taste J. S. Mill judgment lack ligion limited literary literature Macaulay Macaulay's Macmillan mankind Mark Pattison means meditation method Mill's mind Miscellanies mood moral Morley adds Morley continues Morley finds Morley writes Morley's criticism Morley's style nature ness objection opposed passage passion Pattison philosophy poet poet's poetic position positivistic principles prose rationalism rationalist reader reason references reject Revolutionists Robespierre Romanticists Rousseau scientific sense sentiment social society soul spirit statement Studies Symonds sympathy teacher thinking thought tion tone truth Utilitarians virtue vols.-London Voltaire Words Wordsworth
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Página 18 - At the conclusion of the Poems came the famous Ode, falsely called Platonic, " Intimations of Immortality :" in which, along with more than his usual sweetness of melody and rhythm, and along with the two passages of grand imagery but bad philosophy so often quoted, I found that he too had had similar experience to mine ; that he also had felt that the first freshness of youthful enjoyment of life was not lasting; but that he had sought for compensation, and found it, in the way in which he was now...
Página 44 - By Holiness do we not mean something different from virtue? It is not the same as duty ; still less is it the same as religious belief. It is a name for an inner grace of nature, an instinct of the soul, by which, though knowing of earthly appetites and worldly passions, the spirit, purifying itself of these, and independent of reason, argument, and the struggles of the will, dwells in patient and confident communion with the seen and the unseen Good.
Página 12 - The object of poetry is confessedly to act upon the emotions ; and therein is poetry sufficiently distinguished from what Wordsworth affirms to be its logical opposite, namely, not prose, but matter of fact or science. The one addresses itself to the belief, the other to the feelings. The one does its work by convincing or persuading, the other by moving. The one acts by presenting a proposition to the understanding, the other by offering interesting objects of contemplation to the sensibilities.
Página 13 - Poetry is feeling confessing itself to itself, in moments of solitude, and embodying itself in symbols which are the nearest possible representations of the feeling in the exact shape in which it exists in the poet's mind. Eloquence is feeling pouring itself out to other minds, courting their sympathy, or endeavouring to influence their belief or move them to passion or to action.
Página 17 - ... such a proposition cannot be seriously taken as more than a half-playful sally for the benefit of some too bookish friend. No impulse from a vernal wood can teach us anything at all of moral evil and of good.
Página 50 - ... even partial glimpses of a scene too vast and intricate to be comprehended in a single map. To complain that Emerson is no systematic reasoner is to miss the secret of most of those who have given powerful impulses to the spiritual ethics of an age. It is not a syllogism that turns the heart towards purification of life and aim ; it is not the logically enchained propositions of a sorites, but the flash of illumination, the indefinable accent, that attracts masses of men to a new teacher and...
Página 12 - Poetry and eloquence are both alike the expression or utterance of feeling. But if we may be excused the antithesis, we should say that eloquence is heard, poetry is overheard. Eloquence supposes an audience; the peculiarity of poetry appears to us to lie in the poet's utter unconsciousness of a listener.
Página 13 - The difference, then, between the poetry of a poet, and the poetry of a cultivated but not naturally poetic mind, is, that in the latter, with however bright a halo of feeling the thought may be surrounded and glorified, the thought itself is always the conspicuous object; while the poetry of a poet is Feeling itself, employing Thought only as the medium of its expression.
Página 34 - Literature consists of all the books — and they are not so many — where moral truth and human passion are touched with a certain largeness, sanity, and attraction of form.
Página 8 - The subject of this essay is not the so-called "liberty of the will," so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of philosophical necessity; but civil, or social liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual.