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
| Giles Gunn - 1979 - 265 pages
...religious consolation. The opening paragraph of "The Study of Poetry" still rings with his fervor: 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... | |
| David Daiches - 1969 - 356 pages
...is great poetry, great poetry of any kind has a religious significance and is basic in civilization. "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 this is so, then we have a paramount responsibility to discover what... | |
| Michael Harry Levenson - 1986 - 272 pages
...boldly confident of the result, as is Arnold when he intimates the superseding of religion by poetry: 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... | |
| Jan Aler - 1985 - 106 pages
...erinnern, dasandere Tragweite besitze. Sie bewege sich nicht nur in der Nähe der Religion (S.306): The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer und surer stay.... The strongest pari of our religion to-day is its unconsious poetry....... | |
| Stephen Prickett - 1986 - 324 pages
...perhaps, worth recalling the actual passage of Matthew Arnold that Levine made so central to his argument: 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... | |
| 1979 - 434 pages
...are one and that is why he could write that 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. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which... | |
| Joseph Hillis Miller - 1991 - 430 pages
...which has echoed down the decades as the implicit credo of many American departments of English, 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," he goes on to make it clear that poetry is a "stay" just because it... | |
| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 2007 - 764 pages
...coherence, spiritual solace, and moral guidance that religion had formerly supplied. For Arnold, therefore, "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." Poetry becomes all the more important precisely because in the present... | |
| Mark Edmundson - 1995 - 260 pages
...takes on crucial importance. "The future of poetry is immense," Arnold writes in the same passage, "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." The study of poetry can be of major value in an age of generalized doubt,... | |
| R. L. Brett - 1997 - 280 pages
...Poetry' there is a long passage which needs to be quoted in full. 'The future of poetry', writes Arnold, 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. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which... | |
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