...c'est la mode." Na Mark Twain kwamen op het tapijt: Bret Harte, Longfellow, Motley; ook Ruskin wiens „poetry is the suggestion by the imagination of noble grounds for the noble emotions" werd te berde gebracht. Mijne fee vond blijkbaar genoegen in de belangstelling, die ik toonde voor...

...of poetry that finds universal acceptance is still to seek. It may be " a criticism of life," or, " the suggestion by the imagination of noble grounds for the noble emotions," or any other one of the hundred that the wit of man has framed : but, whatever it includes or omits,...

...attain anything like a definite explanation of the character which actually distinguishes it from prose. I come, after some embarrassment, to the conclusion,...imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions." 1 I mean, by the noble emotions, those four principal sacred passions — Love, Veneration, Admiration,...

...attain anything like a definite explanation of the character which actually distinguishes it from prose. I come, after some embarrassment, to the conclusion,...imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions." 1 I mean, by the noble emotions, those four principal sacred passions — Love, Veneration, Admiration,...

...attain anything like a definite explanation of the character which actually distinguishes it from prose. I come, after some embarrassment, to the conclusion,...poetry is "the suggestion, by the imagination, of I noble grounds for the noble emotions." 1 I mean, by the noble emotions, those four principal sacred...

...will call musical Thought." (Lecture on "The Hero as Poet," in Heroes and Hero-Worship.) Ruskin : " Poetry is the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble...passions — Love, Veneration, Admiration, and Joy, . . . and their opposites — Hatred, Indignation (or Scorn), Horror, and Grief." (Modern Painters,...

...will call musical Thought." (Lecture on "The Hero as Poet," in Heroes and Hero-Worship.) Ruskin: " Poetry is the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble...by the noble emotions those four principal sacred passions—Love, Veneration, Admiration, and Joy, . . . and their opposites—Hatred, Indignation (or...

...of the head of the Lake of Geneva," and it was there that he penned his definition of poetry — " the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions " ; to which he afterwards made the necessary addition, " in musical form." From Vevay he proceeded...

...already given, add the following: Carlyle: "Poetry therefore we will call musical thought." Ruskin : ' ' Poetry is the suggestion by the imagination of noble...passions — Love, Veneration, Admiration and Joy and their opposites. " Emerson: "Poetry is the perpetual endeavor to express the spirit of the thing,...

...says Doyle, our " dissatisfaction with what is present and close at hand." 3 Ruskin defines it as " the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions " ; 4 Prof. Courthope, as " the art of producing pleasure by the just expression of imaginative thought...