A Syllabus of English LiteratureB. H. Sanborn & Company, 1912 - 316 pages |
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Page 198 - 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 36 - ... 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 306 - 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 272 - 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 264 - Stage, 1818; Lectures on the English Poets, 1818; Lectures on the English Comic Writers...
Page 226 - 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 198 - Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason.
Page 276 - Pippa Passes (1841); King Victor and King Charles (1842); Return of the Druses (1843); A Blot in the 'Scutcheon (1843); Colombe's Birthday (1844); Luria (1846); Soul's Tragedy (1846); In a Balcony (1853).
Page 220 - ... friend of man. In his style Crabbe produces the poetical effect by means of language of the most naked simplicity, almost utterly divested of the conventional ornaments of poetry. His chief works, which range in date from 1783 to 1818, are The Village, The Parish Register, The Borough, Tales in Verse, Tales of the Hall.