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... judge any work of art until we understand clearly what the artist is trying to do , and we must be constant in our endeavour to judge only within our terms of reference . We may as well criticize for his poor batsmanship a man played ...
... judge any work of art until we understand clearly what the artist is trying to do , and we must be constant in our endeavour to judge only within our terms of reference . We may as well criticize for his poor batsmanship a man played ...
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... judge the artistic merit of any poem , the critic , it is now clear , must decide whether the theme ( and the poet's attitude to it ) is universal or restricted , and further and in greater detail , whether being one or the other , it ...
... judge the artistic merit of any poem , the critic , it is now clear , must decide whether the theme ( and the poet's attitude to it ) is universal or restricted , and further and in greater detail , whether being one or the other , it ...
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... judge poetry , have been discomfited by Ben Jonson's tart saying , " To judge of poets is only the faculty of poets ; and not of all poets , but the best . " There is , they have felt , an un- comfortable ring of truth in this remark ...
... judge poetry , have been discomfited by Ben Jonson's tart saying , " To judge of poets is only the faculty of poets ; and not of all poets , but the best . " There is , they have felt , an un- comfortable ring of truth in this remark ...
Contents
MEANING AND INTENTION II | 11 |
FINAL JUDGEMENT | 120 |
A PIECE OF CRITICISM | 132 |
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A. E. Housman accent adjectives appeal beauty blank verse blow Bonny Dundee brave CHAPTER clear Coleridge colour couplet Danny Deever dark death delight detail diction doth duple Echoing Green emotions English example expression eyes final judgement flowers following passages free verse give green hand hath heart heaven iambic pentameters imagery images imagination judge Keats leaves light look Lyrical melody metre metrical Milton mind modern moon mountains nature neo-Classical never night o'er Paradise Lost pattern Petrarcan pleasure poem poet poet's attitude poet's purpose prosody reader rest rhythmic rime-scheme rimes Romantics round scansion sense sestet Shakespeare Shakespearian silver sing skies song sonnet soul sound Spring sprung rhythm stanzas statement stress style sweet syllables system of scansion T. S. Eliot thee theme things thou thought truth versification whole wind Winter's Tale words Wordsworth writing دو