The Life of the Spirit in the Modern English PoetsHoughton, Mifflin, 1895 - 349 Seiten |
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... Browning . 209 Grotesque Art in Browning ..... 214 Ironic Art in Browning ..... 218 Mockery of Truth 223 Mockery of Love 227 Comparisons: Clough, Byron, Swift, Cervantes, Rabelais 230 Idealist and Mephisto 234 VI. THE POETRY OF SEARCH ...
... Browning . 209 Grotesque Art in Browning ..... 214 Ironic Art in Browning ..... 218 Mockery of Truth 223 Mockery of Love 227 Comparisons: Clough, Byron, Swift, Cervantes, Rabelais 230 Idealist and Mephisto 234 VI. THE POETRY OF SEARCH ...
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... Browning. Swinburne and Morris, our only surviving poets, have nothing new to say; no younger men are rising to take the vacant places. So far as we can tell, the story of our modern English song is ended. That the hush which has fallen ...
... Browning. Swinburne and Morris, our only surviving poets, have nothing new to say; no younger men are rising to take the vacant places. So far as we can tell, the story of our modern English song is ended. That the hush which has fallen ...
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... Browning. Science, democracy, and the past are the guides of modern poetry; but the knowledge of truth is its goal. In the Victorian age, it first becomes fully conscious of its quest, and its different stages may clearly be studied. We ...
... Browning. Science, democracy, and the past are the guides of modern poetry; but the knowledge of truth is its goal. In the Victorian age, it first becomes fully conscious of its quest, and its different stages may clearly be studied. We ...
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Vida Dutton Scudder. the ironic art of Browning; the poetry of religious inquiry in its various phases ; and finally the outlook of faith. So studying, we shall come to feel that the poetry of our age has a vital unity, and witnesses to ...
Vida Dutton Scudder. the ironic art of Browning; the poetry of religious inquiry in its various phases ; and finally the outlook of faith. So studying, we shall come to feel that the poetry of our age has a vital unity, and witnesses to ...
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... Browning. Above the din of machinery and the buzz of analysis there floats upward an unceasing music; and we say with exultation that the century of science has been also a century of song. Yet the song of the age of science finds in ...
... Browning. Above the din of machinery and the buzz of analysis there floats upward an unceasing music; and we say with exultation that the century of science has been also a century of song. Yet the song of the age of science finds in ...
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aesthetic agnosticism Arnold Asia Atalanta Beatrice beauty breath Browning Browning's Byron calm Canto century charm Christian classical Clough consciousness contemplation conviction Dante death deep democracy Demogorgon despair Divine Divine Comedy doubt drama dream earth emotion Empedocles eternal experience eyes fact Faerie Queene faith feeling force forever freedom gives glory Greek heart heaven human humor ideal imagination immortality impulse instinct Keats knights light living Matthew Arnold mediaeval ment Mephisto Middle Ages modern poets Morris movement mystery mystic nature neo-pagan never pagan pain pantheism Paracelsus passed passion past perfect poems poetic poetry poets Prometheus Unbound pure religion religious renaissance rendered reverence revolution Rossetti seek sense serene shadow Shelley Shelley's social song sorrow soul Spenser spirit strong struggle superb supreme Swinburne Tennyson theme thou thought Tintern Abbey tion to-day touched triumph truth turn verse Victorian age Victorian poets vision word Wordsworth
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Seite 267 - Alas! what boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely, slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Seite 6 - The Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he cherishes and loves it in his solitude: the Poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
Seite 254 - We heard the sweet bells over the bay? In the caverns where we lay, Through the surf and through the swell, The far-off sound of a silver bell? Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam, Where the salt weed sways in the stream...
Seite 28 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Seite 138 - The loathsome mask has fallen, the man remains Sceptreless, free, uncircumscribed, but man Equal, unclassed, tribeless, and nationless. Exempt from awe, worship degree, the king Over himself; just, gentle, wise...
Seite 322 - That each, who seems a separate whole, Should move his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul, Is faith as vague as all unsweet: Eternal form shall still divide The eternal soul from all beside; And I shall know him when we meet...
Seite 7 - ... if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of these respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings.
Seite 122 - Life of Life, thy lips enkindle With their love the breath between them; And thy smiles before they dwindle Make the cold air fire; then screen them In those looks, where whoso gazes Faints, entangled in their mazes.
Seite 261 - Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done ; To have advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foes...
Seite 303 - Is lightened ; that serene and blessed mood In which the affections gently lead us on, Until the breath of this corporeal frame, And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.