The North American Review, Volume 96Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1863 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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Page 129
... Poetry is a peculiar department within the general province of literature . The characteris- tics which distinguish poetic from other literary products are important . Yet few persons , we imagine , if called on , would be able to ...
... Poetry is a peculiar department within the general province of literature . The characteris- tics which distinguish poetic from other literary products are important . Yet few persons , we imagine , if called on , would be able to ...
Page 130
... poetry creates . In a word , the matter - of - fact man portrays a thing as it is in itself , so far as his impoverishing vision sees it ; the poet por- trays it as it appears in the excited mind , with magnifying enrichments of hue ...
... poetry creates . In a word , the matter - of - fact man portrays a thing as it is in itself , so far as his impoverishing vision sees it ; the poet por- trays it as it appears in the excited mind , with magnifying enrichments of hue ...
Page 313
... poetry , and what his rank among poets ; and , finally , what has been the general result to mankind of the fact that Thomas Gray - man , poet , scholar once lived , and run his race in the world . We at first proposed , for the sake of ...
... poetry , and what his rank among poets ; and , finally , what has been the general result to mankind of the fact that Thomas Gray - man , poet , scholar once lived , and run his race in the world . We at first proposed , for the sake of ...
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