Classic Writings on PoetryWilliam Harmon Columbia University Press, 13 ապր, 2005 թ. - 560 էջ The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre.—Ralph Waldo Emerson, from "The Poet" |
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Արդյունքներ 83–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
... nature, Adeimantus, appears to have been coined into yet smaller pieces, and to be as incapable of imitating many things well, as of performing well the actions of which the imitations are copies. Quite true, he replied. If then we ...
... beds: one existing in nature, which is made by God, as I think that we may say—for no one else can be the maker? No. There is another which is the work of the carpenter? Yes. And the work of the painter is a third? 16 plato.
... nature and one only; two or more such ideal beds neither ever have been nor ever will be made by God. Why is that ... nature one only. So we believe. Shall we, then, speak of Him as the natural author or maker of the bed? Yes, he replied ...
... nature, or only the creations of artists? The latter. As they are or as they appear? You have still to determine this. What do you mean? I mean, that you may look at a bed from different points of view, obliquely or directly or from any ...
... nature only enough to imitate them; and other people, who are as ignorant as he is, and judge only from his words, imagine that if he speaks of cobbling, or of military tactics, or of anything else, in meter and harmony and rhythm, he ...
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3 Ars Poetica by Horace | 63 |
4 Germania excerpt by Publius Cornelius Tacitus | 75 |
5 On the Sublime excerpt by Longinus? | 79 |
6 Skáldskaparmál by Snorri Sturluson | 107 |
7 The Defence of Poesy by Sir Philip Sidney | 115 |
8 Of Education excerpt by John Milton | 153 |
18 English Bards and Scotch Reviewers excerpt by George Gordon Lord Byron | 331 |
19 A Defence of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley | 349 |
20 The Poet by William Cullen Bryant | 375 |
21 Poems by John Keats | 379 |
22 The Poet excerpt by Ralph Waldo Emerson | 385 |
23 Aurora Leigh Fifth Book excerpt by Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 405 |
24 Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 423 |
25 The Philosophy of Composition by Edgar Allan Poe | 429 |
10 An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope | 207 |
Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot by Alexander Pope | 229 |
11 Lives of the Poets excerpts by Samuel Johnson | 243 |
12 The Progress of Poesy by Thomas Gray | 269 |
13 Observations Prefixed to Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth | 277 |
14 Biographia Literaria Chapter XIV by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 297 |
15 The State of Modern Poetry excerpt by Francis Jeffrey | 305 |
16 On Poetry in General excerpt by William Hazlitt | 313 |
17 The Four Ages of Poetry excerpt by Thomas Love Peacock | 317 |
26 Preface to Leaves of Grass first edition 1855 excerpt by Walt Whitman | 443 |
27 The Study of Poetry by Matthew Arnold | 461 |
28 Poems by Emily Dickinson | 485 |
29 Proofs of Holy Writ by Rudyard Kipling | 493 |
30 A Retrospect by Ezra Pound | 507 |
31 The Possibility of a Poetic Drama by T S Eliot | 519 |
32 Poetic Reality and Critical Unreality by Laura Riding Jackson
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