 In my mind the highest of all poetry is ethical poetry, as the highest of all earthly objects must be moral truth. Religion does not make a part of my subject ; it is something beyond human powers, and has failed in all human hands except Milton's and...  The Invariable Principles of Poetry - Page 41by William Lisle Bowles - 1819 - 104 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1821 - 526 pages
...fancy's maze he wandered long, But atoop'd to truth, and moralized his song." He should have written " rose to truth." In my mind the highest of all poetry...hands except Milton's and Dante's, and even Dante's Eowers are involved in his delineation of human passions, though i supernatural circumstances. What... | |
 | 1821 - 510 pages
...Fancy's maze he wanier'd long, But stooped to Truth, and moraliz'd his song. He should have written ' rose to truth.' In my mind the highest of all poetry...human hands except Milton's and Dante's, and even Dante'* powers are involved in his delineation of human passions, though in supernatural circumstances.... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1821 - 582 pages
...insensibly led your Lordship to calumniate Virgil, Milton, Cowper, and Poetry, I must transcribe : " In my mind, the highest of all poetry is ethical poetry,...highest of all earthly objects must be moral truth." — « In my mind, the ethical is the highest of all poetry, because it does that in. verse, which... | |
 | Fabius (pseud.) - 1821 - 44 pages
...insensibly led your Lordship to calumniate Virgil, Milton, Cowper, and Poetry, I must transcribe: " In my mind, the highest of all poetry is ethical poetry,...highest of all earthly objects must be moral truth." — " In my mind, the ethical is the highest of all poetry, because it does that in verse* which the... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1822 - 600 pages
...fancy's maze he wandered long, But stoop'd to truth, and moralized his song." He should have written " rose to truth." In my mind the highest of all poetry...earthly objects must be moral truth. Religion does notmake a part of my subject ; it is something beyond human powers, and has failed in all human hands... | |
 | 1822 - 136 pages
...fancy's maze he wandered long, But atoop'd to truth, and moralized his song." He should have written " rose to truth." In my mind the highest of all poetry...highest of all earthly objects must be moral truth. Keligion does not make a part of my subject ; it is something beyond human powers, and has failed in... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1822 - 180 pages
...LORD OXFORD ! — It is in vain , that this Critic attempts to dispute Lord Byron's position , that « the highest of all poetry is ethical poetry, as the highest of all eaithly objects must be moral truth (i). This position stands on a rock : perhaps Lord B.'s illustrations... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 546 pages
...maze he wander'd long, Rut stoop'd to truth, aml moralized In • song.» He should have written « rose to truth. » In my mind the highest of all poetry...ethical poetry, as the highest of all earthly objects musl be moral truth. Religion does not make a part of my subject; it is something beyond human powers,... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1829 - 554 pages
...species, against our fastidious editor. In his very able reply to Bowles, concerning Pope, he says : — "In my mind the highest of all poetry is ethical poetry,...highest of all earthly objects must be moral truth. If ethics made a philosopher (Socrates,) the first of men, and have not been disdained as an adjunct... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 pages
...Fancy's maze he wandered long, But stoop'd to Truth, and moraliz'd his song. He should have written ' rose to truth.' In my mind the highest of all poetry...is something beyond human powers, and has failed in ail human hands except Milton's and Dante's, and even Dante's powers are involved in his delineation... | |
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