 | Barnette Miller - 1910 - 196 pages
...of language of greater importance even than free versification in order to avoid the cant of art: " The proper language of poetry is in fact nothing different...upon the strength and sentiment of what it speaks, omitting mere vulgarisms and fugitive phrases which are cant of ordinary discourse." 66 Byron, Letters... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1910 - 526 pages
...that of having a free and idiomatic cast of language. There is a cant of art as well as of nature. But the proper language of poetry is in fact nothing different from that of real life, and depends for dignity upon the strength and sentiments of what it speaks. It is only adding musical modulation to... | |
 | Walter Franz Schirmer - 1912 - 164 pages
...joined one of still greater importance, — that of having a free and idiomatic cast of language . . . the proper language of poetry is in fact nothing different...understanding might actually utter in the midst of its griefs or enjoyments (Muster für diesen Stil: Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Cressida, Pulci, Ariost, Homer,... | |
 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - 1914 - 524 pages
...so unpleasant as the latter, which affects non-affectation. — (What does all this mean ?) — But the proper language of poetry is in fact nothing different...understanding might actually utter in the midst of its griefs or enjoyments. The poet therefore should do as Chaucer or Shakespeare did, — not copy what is obsolete... | |
 | Sir Archibald Strong - 1921 - 454 pages
...well-known attack on Pope's use of the heroic couplet, and its statement, curiously adapted from Wordsworth, that ' the proper language of poetry is in fact nothing different from that of real life '. The genial, versatile, and vulgar genius of Hampstead showed Keats great kindness, and for a period... | |
 | Amy Lowell - 1925 - 702 pages
...of nature, though the former is not so unpleasant as the latter, which affects nonaffectation. But the proper language of poetry is in fact nothing different...understanding might actually utter in the midst of its griefs or enjoyments. The poet therefore should do as Shakespeare or Chaucer did, — not copy what is obsolete... | |
 | 1881 - 826 pages
...fallen, in looking to an unlettered peasantry for poetical language. " The proper language of poetry 18 in fact nothing different from that of real life, and depends for its dignity on the strength and sentiment of what it speaks." Thus far they are agreed. But Leigh Hunt goes on,... | |
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But the proper language of poetry is in fact nothing different from that of real life, and depends for its dignity upon the strength and sentiment of what it speaks. 
