...than it has been the custom to conceive of it. We should conceive of it as capable of higher uses, and called to higher destinies, than those which in...More and more mankind will discover that we have to tu_rn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console jus^ to sustain us. Without poetry, bur science...

...master mind. First, because in it is found the largest and richest expression of poetic thought; and more and more mankind will discover that we have to...interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. Second, because Shakespeare is "the king of poetic strength and style as well as the king of the realm...

...principles of action, and it inspires the emotions helpful in making principles operative, and he added, "We have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us." It is one of the fortunate miracles of literature that so much of the very best poetry is also within...

...than it has been the custom to conceive of it. We 227 should conceive of it as capable of higher uses, and called to higher destinies, than those which in general men have assigned to hitherto. More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for...

...writings may be more properly termed rhymed essays. But it is none the less true that it is the mission of poetry "to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. ' ' And it is not to be forgotten that poetic insight may make even didacticism attractive and imaginative....

...figurative and poetical language best meets our religious needs. As Mr. Matthew Arnold has told us : " We have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us." 3 Poetry is the best vehicle of the universal truth, and meets with the most immediate response and...

...Lectures on Translating Homer (1861). The volume entitled Essays in Criticism (1865, 1888) suggests that " We have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us." According to Arnold, culture means " setting ourselves to ascertain what perfection is and to make...

...than it has been the custom to conceive of it. We should conceive of it as cap- \ able of higher uses, and called to higher destinies, than those which in...assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind will dis cover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. Without...

...of our religion to-day should conceive of it as capable of higher is its unconscious poetry.' uses and called to higher destinies, than those which in general men have as- sound and unsound or only half-sound, signed to it hitherto. More and more true and untrue or only...

...the more we shall prize the ' breath and finer spirit of knowledge offered to us by poetry.' . . . ' More and more mankind will discover that we have to...interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us.' " And a little further on, " The consolation and the stay will be of power in proportion to the power...