Littell's Living Age, Volume 303, Issue 3933Littell, Son and Company, 1919 |
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Page 477
... poetry . Apart from the betting , they also in America have another more serious interest : it is that their ninety millions should be materially comfortable , for the Americans are a humane people , they wish everybody to be ...
... poetry . Apart from the betting , they also in America have another more serious interest : it is that their ninety millions should be materially comfortable , for the Americans are a humane people , they wish everybody to be ...
Page 478
... poetry . If a poet preserves his susceptibility to truth , poetic enthusiasm remains to comfort and inspire him , even though he had parted with every other honorable quality . November 21 , 1916 . The doctrines of ' uplift ' and social ...
... poetry . If a poet preserves his susceptibility to truth , poetic enthusiasm remains to comfort and inspire him , even though he had parted with every other honorable quality . November 21 , 1916 . The doctrines of ' uplift ' and social ...
Page 479
... poetry is that he had not this ' caution ' toward truth . He wrote out of the heart of a fictitious Byron when he rushed into what Keats calls his ' magnanimity . ' Shelley was al- ways the ' cautious ' thinker and had the poet's virgin ...
... poetry is that he had not this ' caution ' toward truth . He wrote out of the heart of a fictitious Byron when he rushed into what Keats calls his ' magnanimity . ' Shelley was al- ways the ' cautious ' thinker and had the poet's virgin ...
Page 480
... poets ' quest of truth separates poets even from poets . October 19 , 1917 . It is my belief that if the whole world had spoken Greek we should not have their great literature . and The other day I was at was maintaining that after the ...
... poets ' quest of truth separates poets even from poets . October 19 , 1917 . It is my belief that if the whole world had spoken Greek we should not have their great literature . and The other day I was at was maintaining that after the ...
Page 482
... poetry should reflect life and , like life , contain everything . That again is the dra- matic poet's opportunity ; prose , com- edy , humor , tragedy , and all the emotions as well as the feelings . I have already said to you that I ...
... poetry should reflect life and , like life , contain everything . That again is the dra- matic poet's opportunity ; prose , com- edy , humor , tragedy , and all the emotions as well as the feelings . I have already said to you that I ...
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