 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
 | 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...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,... | |
 | 1928 - 782 pages
...humanistic religion unburdened with any allegorical myth, he might have said that in Confucianism, "our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay", instead of putting his faith in mere poetry. The modern man refuses to believe in the story of Creation,... | |
 | 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,...time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. . . . More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us,... | |
 | 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 order. Now modern society finds... | |
 | 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,...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 that is meant. Then... | |
 | 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,...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 future of poetry: 'I would have... | |
 | 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,...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,... | |
 | 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,...goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay." If this is so, then we have a paramount responsibility to discover what is truly great poetry. "The... | |
 | 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,...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,... | |
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