The Works of Matthew Arnold in Fifteen Volumes, Volume 11AMS Press, 1970 |
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Page 208
... poetry , then we may con- clude that it is not gifted with the genius for high poetry ; since the genius for high poetry calls forth the high and adequate form , and is inseparable from it . So that , on the one hand , from the absence ...
... poetry , then we may con- clude that it is not gifted with the genius for high poetry ; since the genius for high poetry calls forth the high and adequate form , and is inseparable from it . So that , on the one hand , from the absence ...
Page 211
... poetry , Shakspeare dropped this neces- sarily inadequate form and took a better . We find the rhymed couplet again in Dryden's tragedies . But this vigorous rhetorical poet had no real genius for true tragic poetry , and his form is ...
... poetry , Shakspeare dropped this neces- sarily inadequate form and took a better . We find the rhymed couplet again in Dryden's tragedies . But this vigorous rhetorical poet had no real genius for true tragic poetry , and his form is ...
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... poetry . Poetry , no doubt , is more excellent in itself than prose . In poetry man finds the highest and most beautiful expression of that which is in him . We had far better poetry than the poetry of the eighteenth century before that ...
... poetry . Poetry , no doubt , is more excellent in itself than prose . In poetry man finds the highest and most beautiful expression of that which is in him . We had far better poetry than the poetry of the eighteenth century before that ...
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AN UNREGARDED IRISH GRIEVANCE | 79 |
ECCE CONVERTIMUR AD GENTES | 104 |
THE FUTURE OF LIBERALISM | 134 |
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