 It is important, therefore, to hold fast to this: that poetry is at bottom a criticism of life ; that the greatness of a poet lies In his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life, — to the question: How to live.  The Harvard Monthly - Stran 541896Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1881 - 588 strani
...pathos. He deals only with familiar feelings and affections. But if poetry is " a criticism of life and the greatness of a poet lies in his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life, to the question how to live," to Thackeray must be assigned a high place' among the... | |
 | 1894 - 284 strani
...essence, a criticism of life ; that the true poet has ever before him the question how to live ; that the greatness of a poet lies in his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life. The same question, which in as great a degree engages the mind of the ethical and religious... | |
 | 1879 - 616 strani
...is important, therefore, to hold fast to this : that poetry is at bottom a criticism of life ; that the greatness of a poet lies in his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life — to the question, How to live. Morals are often treated in a narrow and false fashion,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1879 - 362 strani
...is important, therefore, to hold fast to this : that poetry is at bottom a criticism of life ; that the greatness , of a poet lies in his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life, — to the question : How to live. Morals are often treated in a narrow and false fashion,... | |
 | 1879 - 556 strani
...is important, therefore, to hold fast to this : that poetry is at bottom a criticism of life ; that the greatness of a poet lies in his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life — to the question, How to live. Morals are often treated in a narrow and false fashion,... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1879 - 390 strani
...is important, therefore, to hold fast to this : that poetry is at bottom a criticism of life ; that the greatness of a poet lies in his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life, — to the question : How to live. Morals are often treated in a narrow and false fashion,... | |
 | 1881 - 884 strani
...pathos. He deals only with familiar feelings and affections. But if poetry is " a criticism of life and the greatness of a poet lies in his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life, to the question how to live," to Thackeray must be assigned a high place among the poets... | |
 | 1881 - 1180 strani
...He deals ' only with familiar feelings and affections. But if ; poetry 'is "a criticism of life and the greatness of a poet lies in his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life, to the question how to live," to Thackeray must be assigned a high place among the poets... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 492 strani
...highest art, marks the highest types of poetry." — BW Church. " It is important to hold fast to this: poetry is at bottom a criticism of life ; the greatness...lies in his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life, — to the question, How to live. Wordsworth deals with life, because he deals with... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1885 - 284 strani
...is important, therefore, to hold fast to this : that poetry is at bottom a ciiticism of life ; that the greatness of a poet lies in his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life — to the question : How to live.' To which question it would appear that, in Mr. Arnold's... | |
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