 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
 | 1904 - 778 pages
...no longer gives, he turns to poetry. The famous Essay on Poetry opens with these memorable words: " 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... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - 930 pages
...English Poets," Matthew Arnold — critic and poet — to whom allusion has already been made, says : " 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. . . . " We are here invited to trace the stream of English poetry. But... | |
 | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Print Department - 1904 - 156 pages
...than the acquiescent believer in the old traditional forms of faith. 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. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent - 1905 - 264 pages
...caught up with or surpassed poetry in the estimation of the majority. When Matthew Arnold wrote 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," he may have proved himself to be an inspired prophet; but I am not sure... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 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... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1905 - 354 pages
....253 IX. AMIEL .. , „ •. 300 THE STUDY OF POETRY1 'THE future of poetry is immense, because IE 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... | |
 | Oscar Herrmann - 1905 - 248 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 be of a different... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1906 - 764 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... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 pages
...Introduction to The English Poets, edited by TH Ward. Printed in Essays in Criticism, Second Series.] "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... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1907 - 448 pages
...Arnold in that essay on the study of poetry which he wrote for Mr TH Ward's " English Poets " — " 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... | |
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