...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,...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 questionable,...

...interesting illustration and reinforcement of his idea of the relation of literature to science : " ' The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...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 questionable,...

...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...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 questionable,...

...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,...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 questionable,...

...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,...goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay." We can think of no better way of beginning a poetic anthology than by quoting this opening sentence...

..."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,...goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay." Only the view obtained from the ancient height enables us to say that mankind cannot rest on what is...

...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 what now passes with us for religion...

...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 express truths, and are not...

...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,...

...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,...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 is not shown to be questionable,...