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" 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 44
by Charles Nisbet, Don Lemon - 1892 - 310 pages
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Vivat Austria: Schönwiese, Kafka, Roth, Stifter : Studien zur ...

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,...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.... and most...
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Words and The Word: Language, Poetics and Biblical Interpretation

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...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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The Arnoldian, Volumes 7-9

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 is not shown to be questionable,...
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Theory Now and Then

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,...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 is detached from the question of...
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The Columbia History of British Poetry

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,...goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay." Poetry becomes all the more important precisely because in the present age "there is not a creed which...
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Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida: A Defence of Poetry

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...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, but not as an end in itself....
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Faith and Doubt: Religion and Secularization in Literature from Wordsworth ...

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...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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Modernism and the Critical Spirit

230 pages
...sacralize poetry, as we can see in the famous passage about the future of poetry, which I cite again. 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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Religion and Literature: A Reader

Robert Detweiler, David Jasper - 2000 - 212 pages
...his continued interest in the value of poetry in the service of humanity. From " The Study of 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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On Metaphoring: Acultural Hermeneutic

Kuang-Ming Wu - 2001 - 696 pages
..."feelings" above by quoting from Matthew Arnold's famous "The Study of Poetry" that begins as follows. 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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