 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
 | G.A. Natesan - 1925 - 1088 pages
...for a coterie. It is just here that the prophecy which Matthew Arnold made in 1880 may be fulfilled. "In poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, may come to find a surer and surer stay." For great ait, great literature, greiit poetry enable us,... | |
 | Stephen Phillips, Galloway Kyle - 1925 - 490 pages
...from Matthew Arnold, reading in part : " The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, whera it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay." The poems that have withstood the winnowing hand of time are those that... | |
 | Ivor Armstrong Richards - 1926 - 104 pages
...V. THE NEUTRALISATION OF NATURE 53 •VI. POETRY AND BELIEFS . . 66 VII. SOME CONTEMPORARY POETS 80 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 treed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which... | |
 | Walter Clarke Phillips, William Garrett Crane, Frank Rawley Byers - 1928 - 556 pages
...life than there is in the market-place on the days when there is no market. THE STUDY OF POETRY rriHE 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... | |
 | Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, George Henry Payne, Henry Goddard Leach - 1909 - 608 pages
...of the peaks of snow; Tell me of the torrents' flow. POETRY AND THE PRACTICAL MAN BY HARRY T. BAKER "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... | |
 | 1925 - 878 pages
...thorough, downright, complete, ondivided, effectual good job!' 480 SCIENCE AND POETRY BY IA RICHARDS 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... | |
 | 1897 - 1040 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 - 1973 - 508 pages
...impatient, and angry men, like Cobbett, will call them the principles of Pratt, the principles of Yorke. 'The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worth v of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. There... | |
 | 1986 - 668 pages
...— language, religion, art. At times he uses the word race benignly in the sense of the human race: "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."8 If it is not human race here, it is at least all European civilization... | |
 | Denys Thompson - 1978 - 252 pages
...arts Nearly a hundred years ago Matthew Arnold wrote: 'The future of poetry is immense, because in our poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay' (p. 1). Not much later the young WB Yeats expressed his wish for the... | |
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