 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...  Everybody's Writing-desk Book - Page 44by Charles Nisbet, Don Lemon - 1892 - 310 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1897 - 568 pages
...the range of the unknown infinite, thus always giving imagination largest scope." Mathew Arnold says: "The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race will find an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 456 pages
...intense and absolute ; " the future of pcetry," he declares, " is immense, because in poetry, whtre it is worthy of its 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1899 - 626 pages
...Mourning 561 Song 563 From Verses to Sir Henry Wootton 564 TheWUl •.-,-. . . 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... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 pages
...that poetry would disappear with the full maturity of our race. On the contrary, he maintained that " 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." While insisting on beauty of form, he laid particular stress on truth... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 630 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,...its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will rind an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1901 - 474 pages
...opinion on the matter, since we have Matthew Arnold's authority for the statement that "in poetry, when it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay." Poetry which is to fulfil a duty of that kind must not be of a decadent... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 404 pages
...at the request of others. Inane munus indeed, but all that a friend can do ! C. THE STUDY OF POETRY1 '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... | |
 | 1903 - 772 pages
...poetry," said Matthew Arnold — and by " poetry " we may take him to mean Art in its generic sense — " 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." Why? Well, we have laid to heart Pope's axiom, and we have given to... | |
 | 1915 - 414 pages
...roar" of the religious faith of the last years of the nineteenth century. Yet in poetry, we are told, "where it is worthy of its high destinies our race, as time goes on, will find an ever keener and surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 354 pages
...TOLSTOI , . . . 253 IX. AMIEL ... 300 1 THE STUDY OF POETKY1 'THE future of poetry is immense, because ir poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as tune goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not... | |
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