 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
 | 1926 - 780 strani
...may do for us is emphasized by Matthew Arnold in his great essay on Wordsworth. "Poetry," he says, "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." Now this also is not a definition because it clearly... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 strani
...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. Morals are often treated in a narrow and false fashion;... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 strani
...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. Morals are often treated in a narrow and false fashion;... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1973 - 508 strani
...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 15 question: How to live. Morals are often treated in a narrow and false... | |
 | Carl Dawson, John Pfordresher - 1995 - 482 strani
...'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. ' At first sight this definition will strike most people... | |
 | Stephen K. George - 2005 - 428 strani
..."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?"2 This notion of literature as a criticism of life is... | |
 | David Manning - 2007 - 304 strani
...'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.' See Essays in Criticism: Second Series (London: Macmillan,... | |
 | 278 strani
...search in his quarrel with Arnold. The poet whose passion is Life cannot allow Arnold's test ' that the greatness of a poet lies in his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life'. He cannot allow any test. In an essay in which he praises Wordsworth's poems and attacks... | |
 | 1884 - 866 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." To which question it would appear that in Mr. Arnold's... | |
 | 1905 - 1118 strani
..."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. Morals are often treated in a narrow and false fashion,... | |
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