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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... produced. Possibly the meaning of poem has always been evasive and figurative—the sort of usage that we reserve for special subjects, such as religion and emotion, about which it is impossible to be precise. A poem is anything composed ...
... produced by the species. Poetry allows the ordinary to become extraordinary for a time; some people, possibly not model family members or citizens or scholars or even warriors, have touched sublime genius thanks to poetry. If you cannot ...
... produced by rhythm, language, or “harmony,” either singly or combined. Thus in the music of the flute and of the lyre, “harmony” and rhythm alone are employed; also in other arts, such as that of the shepherd's pipe, which are ...
... produce the essential tragic effect nearly so well as with a play which, however deficient in these respects, yet has a plot and artistically constructed incidents. Besides which, the most powerful elements of emotional interest in ...
... produced when the events come on us by surprise; and the effect is heightened when, at the same time, they follows ... produces the opposite effect. Again in the “Lynceus,” Lynceus is being led away to his death, and Danaus goes with him ...
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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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