THE future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which is not shown to be... Matthew Arnold, how to Know Him - Page 148by Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1917 - 326 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1889 - 706 pages
...power." It is only on ' these great terms that Arnold could find the right to declare, "The futyre of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it...goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay." Only the view obtained from the ancient height enables us to say that mankind cannot rest on what is... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1889 - 628 pages
...forbidding Mourning . 561 Song 563 From Verses to Sir Henry Wootton 564 The Will 565 INTRODUCTION. ' THE future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as lime goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not... | |
| Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1890 - 288 pages
...Criticism " (The Study of Poetry), Matthew Arnold, quoting himself, thus reaffirming his opinion, says: The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find a surer and ever surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which... | |
| Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1890 - 294 pages
...poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find a surer and ever surer stay. There is not a. creed which is not shaken,...accredited dogma which is not shown to be questionable, not a received tradition which does_ not threaten to dissolve. Our religion has materialized itself... | |
| John Vance Cheney - 1891 - 312 pages
...importance, " the supreme of power." Only on these great terms could Arnold find the right to declare, " The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay." On the old high definition, the right seeing of life, expressed according to the immutable laws of... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1891 - 304 pages
...influence. The future of Poetry, says Mr. Matthew Arnold, and no one was more qualified to speak, " The future of Poetry is immense, because in Poetry,...time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. But for Poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1892 - 272 pages
...C. ESSAYS IN CRITICISM. i. THE STUDY OF POETRY.* \ "THE future of poetry is immense, because irlty poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies,...accredited dogma which is not shown to be questionable, not a received tradition which does not threaten to dissolve. Our religion has materialised itself... | |
| Charles Nisbet, Don Lemon - 1892 - 330 pages
...' ? What the writer meant is, ' the realization of what has happened or will happen as happening '. "The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay." (Mat. Arnold, Study of Poetry, 1st sentence.) What has an ' immense future ' has ' high destinies ',... | |
| Charles Nisbet, Don Lemon - 1892 - 328 pages
...events'? What the writer meant is, ' the realization of what has happened or will happen as happening '. " The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find au ever surer and surer stay." (Mat. Arnold, Study of Poetry, 1st sentence.) What has an • immense... | |
| 1893 - 1068 pages
...are surely more applicable to Tennyson's work than to the work of any one of his contemporaries. ' The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay.' THEODORE WATTS. The Editor of THE NINETEENTH CENTUKY cannot undertake to return unaccepted MSS. THE... | |
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