Classic Writings on PoetryWilliam Harmon Columbia University Press, 2005-04-13 - 560 psl. The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre.—Ralph Waldo Emerson, from "The Poet" |
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... wizard and no mistake. Oh! you are incredulous, are you? Do you mean that there is no such maker or creator, or that in one sense there might be a maker of all these things but in another not? Do you see that there is a The Republic 15.
... sense in which the painter also creates a bed? Yes, he said, but not a real bed. And what of the maker of the bed? Were you not saying that he too makes, not the idea which, according to our view, is the essence of the bed, but only a ...
... sense of the word bad, the ludicrous being merely a subdivision of the ugly. It consists in some defect or ugliness which is not painful or destructive. To take an obvious example, the comic mask is ugly and distorted, but does not ...
... sense every one understands. Again, Tragedy is the imitation of an action; and an action implies personal agents, who necessarily possess certain distinctive qualities both of character and thought; for it is by these that we qualify ...
... sense of the whole is lost for the spectator; as for instance if there were one a thousand miles long. As, therefore, in the case of animate bodies and organisms a certain magnitude is necessary, and a magnitude which may be easily ...
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3 Ars Poetica by Horace | 63 |
4 Germania excerpt by Publius Cornelius Tacitus | 75 |
5 On the Sublime excerpt by Longinus? | 79 |
6 Skáldskaparmál by Snorri Sturluson | 107 |
7 The Defence of Poesy by Sir Philip Sidney | 115 |
8 Of Education excerpt by John Milton | 153 |
18 English Bards and Scotch Reviewers excerpt by George Gordon Lord Byron | 331 |
19 A Defence of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley | 349 |
20 The Poet by William Cullen Bryant | 375 |
21 Poems by John Keats | 379 |
22 The Poet excerpt by Ralph Waldo Emerson | 385 |
23 Aurora Leigh Fifth Book excerpt by Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 405 |
24 Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 423 |
25 The Philosophy of Composition by Edgar Allan Poe | 429 |
10 An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope | 207 |
Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot by Alexander Pope | 229 |
11 Lives of the Poets excerpts by Samuel Johnson | 243 |
12 The Progress of Poesy by Thomas Gray | 269 |
13 Observations Prefixed to Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth | 277 |
14 Biographia Literaria Chapter XIV by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 297 |
15 The State of Modern Poetry excerpt by Francis Jeffrey | 305 |
16 On Poetry in General excerpt by William Hazlitt | 313 |
17 The Four Ages of Poetry excerpt by Thomas Love Peacock | 317 |
26 Preface to Leaves of Grass first edition 1855 excerpt by Walt Whitman | 443 |
27 The Study of Poetry by Matthew Arnold | 461 |
28 Poems by Emily Dickinson | 485 |
29 Proofs of Holy Writ by Rudyard Kipling | 493 |
30 A Retrospect by Ezra Pound | 507 |
31 The Possibility of a Poetic Drama by T S Eliot | 519 |
32 Poetic Reality and Critical Unreality by Laura Riding Jackson
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