 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...  The Nineteenth Century - Page 2691897Full view - About this book
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 124 pages
...and language. 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, j The practice is indeed convenient and popular, and to be preferred especially in such composition... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1892 - 216 pages
...harmony and language. 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...observed. The practice is, indeed, convenient and popular; . . . but every great poet must inevitably innovate upon the example of his predecessors in the exact... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1892 - 216 pages
...harmony and language. 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...observed. The practice is, indeed, convenient and popular; . . . but every great poet must inevitably innovate upon the example of his predecessors in the exact... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1897 - 250 pages
...harmony and language. 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...poet must inevitably innovate upon the example of bis predecessors in the exact structure of bis peculiar versification. The distinction between poets... | |
 | Samuel Henry Butcher - 1895 - 418 pages
...Defence of Poetry : ' 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...composition as includes much action : but every great poet mnst inevitably innovate upon the example of his predecessors in the exact structure of his peculiar... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1896 - 438 pages
...desirable." And Shelley — "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 distinction between poets and prose writers is a vulgar error." Shelley goes on to instance Plato and... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1896 - 448 pages
...desirable." And Shelley—" 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 distinction between poets and prose writers is a vulgar error." Shelley goes on to instance Plato and... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1901 - 474 pages
...the name of poets. For Xenophon, who did imitate so excellently as to give us effigiem justi impcrii, the portraiture of a just empire under the name of...upon the example of his predecessors in the exact 1 Aristotle, Poetics, xxii. 5. structure of his peculiar versification. The distinction between poets... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1903 - 488 pages
...harmony and language. 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. (SHELLEY : A Defence of Poetry.) Poetry, in its matter and form, is natural imagery or feeling, combined... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1909 - 304 pages
...and language. Yet it is by no means essential that a poet 127 should accommodate his language to this traditional form, so that the harmony, which is its...the exact structure of his peculiar versification. J|The distinction between poets and prose writers is a vulgar errorl The distinction between philosophers... | |
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