 | 1849 - 604 էջ
...leaving him in the luxury of twilight.' He disliked all poetical surprises, and affirmed that poetry ' should strike * the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and ' appear almost a remembrance.' Shelley's genius, like the eagle he describes, ' Runs down the slanted sunlight of the... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1848 - 566 էջ
...and credit me for a deeper feeling and devotion for his uprightness, than for any marks of genius, however splendid. The correction and publication of...poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by smgularity ; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost... | |
 | John Keats - 1848 - 420 էջ
...the leading strings. In poetry I have a few axioms, and you will see how far I am from their centre. 1st. I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess,...wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. 2nd. Its touches of beauty should never be halfway, thereby making the reader breathless,... | |
 | Richard Monckton Milnes (1st baron Houghton.) - 1848 - 328 էջ
...the leading-strings. In poetry I have a few axioms, and you will see how far I am from their centre. 1st. I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess,...wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. 2nd. Its touches of beauty should never be halfway, thereby making the reader breathless,... | |
 | 1849 - 636 էջ
...should reach Homer." " In poetry I have a few axioms, and you will see how far I am from their centre. 1st, I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess,...not by singularity; it should strike the reader as the wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. 2rf, Its touches of beauty... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 604 էջ
...leaving him in the luxury of twilight." He disliked all poetical surprises, aud affirmed that poetry "should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance." Shelley's genius, like the eagle he describes, " Runs down the slanted sunlight of the... | |
 | 1850 - 600 էջ
...leaving him in the luxury of twilight." He disliked all poetical surprises, aud affirmed that poetry " should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance." Shelley's genius, like the eagle he describes, " Runs down the slanted sunlight of the... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 էջ
...most feeling appreciation of its exquisiteness. Axiom 1. — " I think poetry should surprise by à fine excess, and not by singularity ; it should strike...wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. 2. — " Its touches of beauty should never be half-way, thereby making the reader breathless... | |
 | 1894 - 1020 էջ
...scattered through his letters. Emphasizing the use of simple means in his art, he says, " I think that poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by...wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance." " We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us. ... Poetry should be great and unobtrusive,... | |
 | John Keats, Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - 1867 - 388 էջ
...leading-strings. In poetry I have a few axioms, and you will see how far I am from their centre. -- 1st. I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess,...wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. 2nd. Its touches of beauty should never be half-way, thereby making the reader breathless,... | |
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I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity ; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. 
