 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Italy - 1840 - 368 pages
...convenient and popular, and to be preferred, especially in such composition as includes much action : but every great poet must inevitably innovate upon...between poets and prose writers is a vulgar error. The distinction between philosophers and poets has been anticipated. Plato was essentially a poet—the... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 256 pages
...convenient and popular, and to -be preferred, especially in such composition as includes much action: but every great poet must inevitably innovate upon...example of his predecessors in the exact structure of TiTs "peculiar versification. The distinction between poets and prose writers is a vulgar erTbr. The... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...convenient and popular, and to be preferred, especially in such composition as includes much action : but every great poet must inevitably innovate upon...exact structure of his peculiar versification. The distincmaterials of poetry ; they may be called poetry by _that figure of speech which considers the... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fore-edge painting - 1847 - 578 pages
...convenient and popular, and to be preferred, especially in such composition as includes much action : bui every great poet must inevitably innovate upon the...between poets and prose writers is a vulgar error. The distinction between philosophers and poets has been anticipated. Plato was essentially a poet —... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fore-edge paintings - 1874 - 584 pages
...convenient and popular, and to be preferred, especially in such composition as includes much action : bul every great poet must inevitably innovate upon the example of his predecessors in the exacl structure of his peculiar versification. The distinction between poets and prose writers is a... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 438 pages
...the edition of 1852, certain for sort of. especially iu such composition as includes much action : but every great poet must inevitably innovate upon...between poets and prose writers is a vulgar error. The distinction between philosophers and poets has been anticipated. Plato was essentially a poet —... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Prose literature - 1880 - 444 pages
...convenient and popular, and to be preferred especially in such composition as includes much action: but every great poet must inevitably innovate upon...of his predecessors in the exact structure of his I peculiar versification. The distinction between poets and f prose writers is a vulgar error. The... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poets, English - 1887 - 758 pages
...convenient and popular, and to be preferred, especially in such composition as includes much action : but every great poet must inevitably innovate upon...predecessors in the exact structure of his peculiar versificaCtion. The distinction between poets and prose writers is a vulgar error. The distinction... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1888 - 426 pages
...convenient and popular, and to be preferred, especially in such composition as includes much action : but every great poet must inevitably innovate upon...peculiar versification. The distinction between poets and prose-writers is a vulgar error. The distinction between philosophers and poets has been anticipated.... | |
 | Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1890 - 210 pages
...convenient and popular, and to be preferred especially in such composition as includes much action; but every great poet must inevitably innovate upon...between poets and prose writers is a vulgar error. . . . Plato was essentially a poet — the truth and splendor of his imagery, and the melody of his... | |
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Yet it is by no means essential that a poet should accommodate his language to this traditional form, so that the harmony, which is its spirit, be observed. The practice is indeed convenient and popular, and to be preferred, especially in such composition... 
