 | Julia Parker Dabney - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1901 - 296 pages
...the utterance of a passion for truth, beauty, and power, embodying and illustrating its conception by imagination and fancy, and modulating its language on the principle of variety in uniformity." — LEIGH HUNT. " Poetry is thought and art in one." — MATTHEW ARNOLD. Professor Corson, in his lectures... | |
 | Julia Parker Dabney - English language - 1901 - 296 pages
...WORDSWORTH. " The best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds." — SHELLEY. " Poetry is the utterance of a passion for truth, beauty, and power, embodying and illustrating its conception by imagination and fancy, and modulating its language on the principle of variety in uniformity."... | |
 | George Saintsbury - Criticism - 1904 - 692 pages
...Journal — we shall never find and in all his uncollected periodical him better and seldom so good. embodying and illustrating its conceptions by imagination...language on the principle of variety in uniformity," is not bad; but these things are never very satisfactory. It will be seen that Hunt, like Coleridge,... | |
 | Charles William Pearson - American poetry - 1908 - 280 pages
...says: " Poetry is the utterance of a passion for truth, beauty and power, illustrating and embodying its conceptions by imagination and fancy, and modulating...language on the principle of variety in uniformity." Passing from these definitions of poetry, let us consider its special themes. Poetry ignores the trivial... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English language - 1909 - 402 pages
...distinct gratification from each component part." (Biographia Literaria, chap. xiv.) Leigh Hunt : " Poetry is the utterance of a passion for truth, beauty, and...language on the principle of variety in uniformity." (Essay on "What is Poetry?" in Imagination and Fancy.) Macaulay : " By poetry we mean the art of employing... | |
 | Hudson Maxim - Poetry - 1910 - 384 pages
...shared by all the world, but as the operation of that feeling, such as we see it in the poet's book, is the utterance of a passion for truth, beauty, and...universe contains; and its ends, pleasure and exaltation. Poetry stands between nature and convention, keeping alive among us the enjoyment of the external and... | |
 | Hudson Maxim - Poetry - 1910 - 460 pages
...shared by all the world, but as the operation of that feeling, such as we see it in the poet's book, is the utterance of a passion for truth, beauty, and...imagination and fancy, and modulating its language on the |\ ci/ple of varict-if jp- utiifnrmity Its means are ^uJKalever the universe contains; and its ends,... | |
 | W. C. Smith - American poetry - 1913 - 194 pages
...spirit of the thing, to * * search the life and reason which causes it to exist." Leigh Hunt: "Poetry is the utterance of a passion for truth, beauty and...language on the principle of variety in uniformity." Take each of these definitions to Lanier 's poetry — the last, for example, to the Marshes of Glynn^—and... | |
 | Joseph Berg Esenwein, Mary Eleanor Roberts - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 336 pages
...reference to the emotions and by means of the imagination." — RM ALDEN, Introduction to Poetry. "Poetry is the utterance of a passion for truth, beauty, and...language on the principle of variety in uniformity." — LEIGH HUNT, What is Poetry? "Poetry is rhythmical, imaginative language, expressing the invention,... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - Criticism - 1913 - 484 pages
...8 it is, says Hazlitt, " the language of the imagination and the passions ; " * says Leigh Hunt, " the utterance of a passion for truth, beauty, and...modulating its language on the principle of variety in unity." 5 In vtew,p_oeirjz__isthe antithesis of science., its immpHiatg nhjprf pjeasure, nottruthj... | |
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... the utterance of a passion for truth, beauty, and power, embodying and illustrating its conceptions by imagination and fancy, and modulating its language on the principle of variety in uniformity. 
