...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,...high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay." On the old high definition, the right seeing of life, expressed according...

...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, 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...

...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,...high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay.' THEODORE WATTS. The Editor of THE NINETEENTH CENTUKY cannot undertake...

...present 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,...high destinies, our race, as 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,...

...concerned this history does not pass the biographical stage. Literature vs. the History of Literature. "The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay." if we alter this familiar sentence of Matthew Arnold's by substituting...

...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,...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...

...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,...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...

...citizen of the past world. If he could write, "the future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, when it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay,"3 he could do so by reason of his deep-rooted faith in the fundamental...

...away, grow larger and stronger as the years increase. With a fine enthusiasm Matthew Arnold has said, " The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. More and more mankind .will discover that we have to turn to poetry to...

...exquisite "simples." His faith in poetry is intense and absolute ; " the future of poetry," he declares, " is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy...high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay." This declaration contrasts strikingly with Macaulay's pessimistic theory...