 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 - 1909 - 312 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...such composition as includes much action : but every gr poet must inevitably innovate upon the example of his predecessors in the exact structure of his... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley, Bodleian Library - 1910 - 160 pages
...language. ' Sh. e. 6 Yet it is by no means essential that a poet should accomodate his language to this traditional form, so that the harmony which is its spirit, be observed. The practise is indeed convenient and popular, and to be preferred, f. 72 rev. especially in such composition... | |
 | Samuel Henry Butcher - 1911 - 468 pages
...dialogues or romances among poets strictly so called. As Mr. Courthope truly says,1 such composition aa includes much action : but every great poet must inevitably...peculiar versification. The distinction between poets and prose-writers is a vulgar error. . . . Plato was essentially a poet — the truth and splendour of... | |
 | Samuel Henry Butcher - 1911 - 474 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...convenient and popular, and to be preferred, especially in that from Aristotle's point of view, which was mainly one of observation, the question to be determined... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 346 pages
...so that the harmony, language to which is its spirit, be observed. The practice is indeed tb'naTform convenient and popular, and to be preferred, especially...predecessors in the exact structure of his peculiar Thedistincversification. The distinction between poets and prose poTts anT™ writers is a vulgar error.... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 346 pages
...that the harmony, fa^gu'age to which is its spirit, be observed. The practice is indeed in metre no such composition as includes much action ; but every...predecessors in the exact structure of his peculiar Thedistincversification. The distinction between poets and prose poet« and™" writers is a vulgar... | |
 | Roger Ingpen - 1917 - 902 pages
...anew. ' this inserted. > 661 no means essential that a poet should accommodate his language to this traditional form, so that the harmony, •which is...preferred, especially in such. composition as includes much form and l action : but every great poet must inevitably innovate upon the example of his predecessors... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - 1924 - 636 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...be observed. The practice is indeed convenient and papular, and to be preferred, especially in such composition as includes much action : but every great... | |
 | Edith Sitwell - 1926 - 50 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...the exact structure of his peculiar versification." There is, undoubtedly, a vast difficulty for fresh readers in the fact that modernist poetry is bringing... | |
 | Samuel Henry Butcher, Aristotle, John Gassner - 1951 - 516 pages
...it is by no means essential that a poet should accommodate his language to this traditional form, aO that the harmony, which is its spirit, be observed....convenient and popular, and to be preferred, especially in that from Aristotle's point of view, which was mainly one of observation, the question to be determined... | |
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