...contemporaries ; it will certainly be the best title to esteem with posterity. THE STUDY OF POETRY 1 " 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...

...the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. M. ARNOLD, Introduction to Ward's English Poets, 1880. 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 dcgma which...

...SHELLEY . . . . , . 205 VIII. COUNT LEO TOLSTOI , . . .253 _IX. AMIEL ... .. . 300 THE STUDY OF POETRY1 'THE future of poetry is immense, because in 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...

...interesting illustration and reinforcement of his idea of the relation of literature to science : " ' 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...

...Ward. It is particularly notable for ', Arnold's doctrine of poetic "touchstones" as a guide to taste.] "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...

...It is particularly notable for Arnold's doctrine of poetic "touchstones" as a guide to taste.] "T1iE future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where...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...

...Adam, scripturally, "out of the dust of the earth," that a breathing of the "breath of life" touched. 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...

...swords of Caesars, they are less than rust: The poet doth remain. William Watson: "Lachrimce Musarum" "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 can think of no better way of beginning a poetic anthology than by...

..."the supreme of power." It is only on these great terms that Arnold could 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." Only the view obtained from the ancient height enables us to say that...

...pages of Arnold himself. " The future of poetry is immense," said Arnold, " 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. . . . Without poetry our science will appear incomplete ; and most of...