...which have more than merely practical value. Of literature it has been said that " it is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds." It is the highest form of self-expression, and it has value in proportion as it ascends above the plane...

...best of all reasons why we should read it. If poetry be really what Shelley thought it, " the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds," its claims need no enforcement, provided they are once perceived. No new converts are to be gained...

...its stronger appeal to the imagination and the aejrnet1c sense. Shelley denned poetry as "the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds ; " and Ruskin said, " Poetry is the suggestion by the imagination of noble grounds for noble emotions."...

...well as more pleasurable to allow him to walk alone. Shelley's definition of poetry as " the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds " suggests the whole duty of the reader. All that is required of him is to obey the Golden Rule. There...

...diffused.—Daniel Webster. Make four paragraphs out of the following selection: Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. We are aware of evanescent visitations of thought and feeling, sometimes associated with place or person,...

...this clearer, and show, too, the difficulty of the problem. " Poetry," says Shelley, " is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds." But how can this include that genuine poetic genius, Byron, who gloried in being neither good nor happy?...

...circumference of knowledge," the "perfect and consummate surface and bloom of all things," the " record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds." All which (or all except the crotchet about verse) I for one do most powerfully and potently believe...

...enchanter and we are the willing victims of his spells." "Shelley's definition of poetry, 'the records of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds,' suggests the whole duty of the reader. All that is required of him is to obey the Golden Rule."—...

...accounting to itself for the origin, the gradations, or the media of the process. Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. We are aware of evanescent visitations of thought and feeling sometimes associated with place or person,...

...feelings and the imagination, by the instrumentality of musical and moving words. II. Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. To understand what poetry is, one must read, and learn to know intimately, the works of great poets....