 | 1848 - 572 pàgines
...never be halfway, thereby making the reader breathless, instead of content. The rise, the progress, the setting of imagery, should, like the sun, come natural...he once more allowed his imagination to riot in the frclicsomeness which appeared to be natural to it, in its healthy tone. Buy a girdle, put a pebble... | |
 | 1848 - 602 pàgines
...breathless, instead of content. The rise, the progress, Ihe setting of imagery, should, like the HUD, come natural to him, shine over him, and set soberly,...he once more allowed his imagination to riot in the frolicksomeness which appeared to be natural to it, in its healthy tone. Buy a girdle, put a pebble... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pàgines
...him, shine over him, and set soberly, although in magnificence, leaving him in the luxury of tmli'ßt. But it is easier to think what poetry should be, than...the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all. If 'Endymion' serves me asa pioneer, perhaps I ought to be content, for, thank God, I can read, and... | |
 | John Keats, Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - 1867 - 388 pàgines
...be half-way, thereby making the reader breathless, instead of content. The rise, the progress, the setting of imagery, should, like the sun, come natural...the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all. However it may be with me, I cannot help looking into new countries with " Oh, for a muse of fire to... | |
 | Frances Mary Owen - 1880 - 202 pàgines
...easier to think ' what poetry should be, than to write it. And ' this leads me to another axiom—that if poetry ' comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it ' had better not come at all. However it may be ' with me, I cannot help looking into new coun' tries with " Oh, for a muse of fire... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882 - 426 pàgines
...society receives the productions of its members, and retained his independence. " If poetry comes not naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all," he says, and with the true spirit of an artist adds a little later, " I am anxious to get Endymion... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pàgines
...clamorous sublimities of Byron and Shelley are unwelcome intruders." In one of his letters Keats says : " If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all." It would not be an exaggerated estimate of him to compare him with Spenser, and to call him "the poet's... | |
 | William Michael Rossetti, John Parker Anderson - 1887 - 248 pàgines
...never be half-way, thereby making the reader breathless instead of content. The rise, the progress, the setting, of imagery, should, like the sun, come natural...leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all," Keats held that the melody of verse is founded on the adroit management of open and close vowels. He... | |
 | John Keats - 1889 - 546 pàgines
...be half-way, thereby making the reader breathless, instead of content. The rise, the progress, the setting of imagery, should, like the sun, come natural...the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all. However it may be with me, I cannot help looking into new countries with "Oh, for a muse of fire to... | |
 | William James Dawson - 1890 - 396 pàgines
...never half-way, thereby making the reader breathless instead of content. The rise, the progress, the setting of imagery should, like the sun, come natural...leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all." This is, in brief, Keats' creed, and his work exemplifies it. He does little to quicken the sympathies,... | |
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Imagery should, like the sun, come natural to him, shine over him, and set soberly, although in magnificence, leaving him in the luxury of twilight. But it is easier to think what poetry should be, than to write it— And this leads me to Another axiom—... 
