The Year's Work in English Studies, Volumen1English Association, 1921 |
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Página 13 - We must require, then, that a true ode be a lyrical poem, serious in tone and stately in its structure ; that it be cast in the form of an address ; that it be rapid in style, treating its subject with 'brevity and variety'; and that its unity be emotional in character.
Página 18 - ... see that Histories make Men wise ; Poets, witty ; Mathematicks, subtle ; Natural Philosophy, deep ; Moral Philosophy, grave ; Logick and Rhetorick, able to dispute ; all which Excellencies are to be acquired only from Books ; since no Vocal Learning is so effectual for Instruction, as Reading; for that written Discourses are better digested, and support themselves better on their own weight, than Words disguised by the manner of Expression, cadence or gesture, which corrupt the simplicity of...
Página 58 - Love is a passion, kindling heart, brain, and senses alike in natural and happy proportions ; ardent but not sensual, tender but not sentimental, pure but not ascetic, moral but not puritanic, joyous but not frivolous, mirthful and witty but not cynical.
Página 79 - an attempt to come to certain conclusions about Spenser only on the basis of a vast number of experiences of other readers of Spenser in every decade from 1579 to 1917.
Página 87 - Donne's verse were aware that however highly they estimated his merits as a poet, he was equally worthy of fame as a prose writer — that, indeed, his mastery of the means of expression was perhaps even greater in prose than in poetry ; was less impeded by those defects of technique and temperament which kept him from reaching the highest level of poetic achievement. There is truth, therefore, in the remark which Coleridge is reported to hav« made, when, in the year before his death, he visited...
Página 47 - Thus literature and- education on the one hand, government and trade on the other, contributed powerfully to mould the speech of the Frenchmen, who streamed into this country in the wake of the Conqueror, into one homogeneous language. But this language once established in England developed independently.
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