 In my mind the highest of all poetry is ethical poetry, as the highest of all earthly objects must be moral truth. Religion does not make a part of my subject ; it is something beyond human powers, and has failed in all human hands except Milton's and...  The Invariable Principles of Poetry - Stran 41avtor: William Lisle Bowles - 1819 - 104 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
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...always ranked according to their execution and not according to their branch of the art", yet in his mind "the highest of all poetry is ethical poetry,...as the highest of all earthly objects must be moral truths"; and he is especially indignant at being told this is not so by one of the priesthood! His... | |
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