A Text-book for the Study of PoetryAllyn and Bacon, 1913 - 214 pages |
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... Character CHAPTER IV . Thought in Poetry . General Ideas in Poetry · Thought to be Instinct with Emotion Originality of Thought 52 56 58 Truth of Poetic Thought . 59 59 Truth in Narrative and Description . 61 Idealization Realism 689 66 ...
... Character CHAPTER IV . Thought in Poetry . General Ideas in Poetry · Thought to be Instinct with Emotion Originality of Thought 52 56 58 Truth of Poetic Thought . 59 59 Truth in Narrative and Description . 61 Idealization Realism 689 66 ...
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... character ; he afterwards . discriminates against exaggerated realism by stating that the poet is to imitate nature not as it actually exists in all its details , but nature as it should be , or as it ideally ex- ists in the mind of the ...
... character ; he afterwards . discriminates against exaggerated realism by stating that the poet is to imitate nature not as it actually exists in all its details , but nature as it should be , or as it ideally ex- ists in the mind of the ...
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... character ; —and this leads us round once more to the definition we have adopted . ( 3 ) With regard to the many other definitions , ancient and modern , which ascribe to poetry the essential feature of " giving pleasure , " we must ...
... character ; —and this leads us round once more to the definition we have adopted . ( 3 ) With regard to the many other definitions , ancient and modern , which ascribe to poetry the essential feature of " giving pleasure , " we must ...
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Francis M. Connell. metre we lose the emotion with it . The poetical character is destroyed not precisely by the absence of metre , but rather by the absence of the emotional tone that in such poetry van- ishes with the metre . Let us ...
Francis M. Connell. metre we lose the emotion with it . The poetical character is destroyed not precisely by the absence of metre , but rather by the absence of the emotional tone that in such poetry van- ishes with the metre . Let us ...
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... emotional state towards his narrative . He is giving information about his characters or their environ- ment ; he is conscious of an audience ; he is not singing in his own heart . This at least is not his 16 THE NATURE OF POETRY.
... emotional state towards his narrative . He is giving information about his characters or their environ- ment ; he is conscious of an audience ; he is not singing in his own heart . This at least is not his 16 THE NATURE OF POETRY.
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