 The appropriate business of poetry, (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent as pure science,) her appropriate employment, her privilege and her duty, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear ; not as they exist in themselves,...  Poems - Pàgina 343per William Wordsworth - 1815Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | George McLean Harper - 1916 - 490 pàgines
...objective reactions. His view is impressionistic, for he says: " The appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless, if genuine is as permanent as...but as they seem to exist to the senses and to the I passions." There can be little doubt that he has in mind Hazlitt and Jeffrey, when he strikes with... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1920 - 340 pàgines
...'poetry is the history or science of feelings.' 'The appropriate business of poetry,' he says elsewhere, '(which nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...her appropriate employment, her privilege and her duly, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear; not as they exist in themselves, but... | |
 | Emile Legouis, Sir Leslie Stephen - 1921 - 506 pàgines
...knowledge of it the science can never be brought to completeness. "The appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...seem to exist to the senses, and to the passions." 1 And if it be objected that these appearances are illusory, the poet replies, in the first place,... | |
 | Heathcote William Garrod - 1923 - 252 pàgines
...the appropriate business of poetry . . .', says the Essay Supplementary, ' to treat of things . . . not as they exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses and the passions.' The remark comes from the year 1815 ; but it sorts with the teaching and practice of... | |
 | David Graham - 1925 - 380 pàgines
...about to criticise a poem ! Just ponder it. You are a poet. Your business, your duty, your privilege, is to treat of things " not as they are but as they appear," &c., which is to say that you, the poet, are to write of Spring, or Summer, or Autumn, or Winter; of... | |
 | Annie Edwards Powell Dodds - 1926 - 280 pàgines
...distinctly rejects the claim of poetry to know reality : " The appropriate business of poetry . . . her appropriate employment, her privilege and her...seem to exist to the senses and to the passions." * 1 Biographia, XIII. z Preface, 1815. 3 Biographia, IV. 4 Essay supplementary to the Preface, 1815.... | |
 | Annie Edwards Powell Dodds - 1926 - 284 pàgines
...distinctly rejects the claim of poetry to know reality : r " The appropriate business of poetry . . . her appropriate employment, her privilege and her duty, is to treat of things ^ j not as they are, but as they appear ; not as they exist in theml selves, but as they seem to exist... | |
 | Gilbert Murray - 1927 - 296 pàgines
...thinks the admission dangerous — that poetry is concerned with appearance, not with reality. "Poetry's appropriate employment, her privilege and her duty,...exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the sense and the passions." If this is true, the aim of poetry is illusion; what, then, do people mean... | |
 | Gilbert Murray - 1927 - 294 pàgines
...thinks the admission dangerous — that poetry is concerned with appearance, not with reality. "Poetry's appropriate employment, her privilege and her duty,...exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the sense and the passions." If this is true, the aim of poetry is illusion; what, then, do people mean... | |
 | 1909 - 498 pàgines
...chiefly proceed; but upon Youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...not as they exist in themselves, but as they seem *'i exist to the senses, and to the passions. What a world 01 delusion does this acknowledged obligation... | |
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