...163 VII. SHELLEY 205 VIII. COUNT LEO TOLSTOI . . . .253 IX. AMIEL ...... 300 I THE STUDY OF POETEY1 'THE future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which...

...power." It is only on ' these great terms that Arnold could find the right to declare, "The futyre of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it...high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay." Only the view obtained from the ancient height enables us to say that...

...forbidding Mourning . 561 Song 563 From Verses to Sir Henry Wootton 564 The Will 565 INTRODUCTION. ' THE future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as lime goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not...

...Criticism " (The Study of Poetry), Matthew Arnold, quoting himself, thus reaffirming his opinion, says: The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find a surer and ever surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which...

...influence. The future of Poetry, says Mr. Matthew Arnold, and no one was more qualified to speak, " The future of Poetry is immense, because in Poetry,...high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. But for Poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion,...

...importance, " the supreme of power." Only on these great terms could Arnold find the right to declare, " The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay." On the old high definition, the right seeing of life, expressed according...

...C. ESSAYS IN CRITICISM. i. THE STUDY OF POETRY.* \ "THE future of poetry is immense, because irlty poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which...

...are surely more applicable to Tennyson's work than to the work of any one of his contemporaries. ' The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay.' THEODORE WATTS. The Editor of THE NINETEENTH CENTUKY cannot undertake...

...present influence. The future of Poetry, says Mr. Matthew Arnold, and no one was more qualified to speak, "The future of Poetry is immense, because in Poetry,...high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. But for Poetry the idea is everything ; the rest is a world of illusion,...

...concerned this history does not pass the biographical stage. Literature vs. the History of Literature. "The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay." if we alter this familiar sentence of Matthew Arnold's by substituting...