A Syllabus of English LiteratureBenj. H. Sanborn & Company, 1912 - 316 pages |
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Page 168 - The business of a poet," said Imlac, "is to examine, not the individual, but the species ; to remark general properties and large appearances ; he does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest.
Page 266 - The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems (1849); Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems (1852); Poems (1853); Merope (1858); New Poems (1867); collective edition of Poems (1869).
Page 242 - Ballads and Other Poems, 1880; Tiresias and Other Poems, 1885; Locksley Hall Sixty Years After, 1886; Demeter and Other Poems, 1889; The Death ofCEnone, 1892.
Page 196 - It is the addition of strangeness to beauty, that constitutes the romantic character in art; and the desire of beauty being a fixed element in every artistic organization, it is the addition of curiosity to this desire of beauty, that constitutes the romantic temper.
Page 168 - Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason.
Page 152 - Jeremy Collier, whose Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698) reminds us of Gosson and precipitated hot discussion and some reforms.
Page 246 - Return of the Druses, 1843. A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, 1843.
Page 38 - ... and correctyon of al noble lordes and gentylmen enprysed to enprynte a book of the noble hystoryes of the sayd kynge Arthur / and of certeyn of his knyghtes after a copye vnto me delyuerd / whyche copye Syr Thomas Malorye dyd take oute of certeyn bookes of frensshe and reduced it in to Englysshe...
Page 146 - William Wycherley: The Country Wife, 1673; The Plain Dealer, 1674; influenced by Moliere; coarse and brutal, but of great power. (c) William Congreve (1670-1729): wrote both comedy and tragedy; intimate with Swift and Pope; best tragedy The Mourning Bride, 1697; comedies, such as Love for Love, 1695, and The Way of the World, 1700, marked by excellence of plot, scintillating wit, skill in portraiture, coarseness. (d) George Farquhar, The Beaux Stratagem, 1707. (e) Comedies were also written by Aphra...
Page 136 - Company under the date of October 6th, 1645. It was published on Jan. 2, 1645 — 6, with the following title-page: "-Poems of Mr. John Milton, both English and Latin, composed at several times.