 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...  The English Poets: Chaucer to Donne - Pàgina xiiieditat per - 1880Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1915 - 414 pàgines
...roar" of the religious faith of the last years of the nineteenth century. Yet in poetry, we are told, "where it is worthy of its high destinies our race, as time goes on, will find an ever keener and surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which is not... | |
 | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Print Department - 1904 - 156 pàgines
...than the acquiescent believer in the old traditional forms of faith. Matthew Arnold has said : — "The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...which does not threaten to dissolve. Our religion lias materialized itself in the fact, in the supposed fact; it has attached its emotion to the fact,... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - 930 pàgines
...English Poets," Matthew Arnold — critic and poet — to whom allusion has already been made, says : " The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. . . . " We are here invited to trace the stream of English poetry. But whether we set ourselves, as... | |
 | 1904 - 778 pàgines
...no longer gives, he turns to poetry. The famous Essay on Poetry opens with these memorable words: " The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...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... | |
 | Religious Education Association - 1904 - 668 pàgines
...knowledge" — in poetry and in poetic prose. Matthew Arnold was very nearly right in saying that "in poetry our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay," and that "the strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry." Judged by this criterion,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1905 - 362 pàgines
...but all that a friend can do ! C. THE STUDY OF POETRY1 'TuE future of poetry is immense, because ir poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies,...which does not threaten to dissolve. Our religion I/ hjis materialised itself in the fact, in the supposed fact ; it has attached its emotion to the... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 pàgines
...that poetry would disappear with the full maturity of our race. On the contrary, he maintained that " the future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay." While insisting on beauty of form, he laid particular stress on truth and value of substance. In one... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent - 1905 - 264 pàgines
...caught up with or surpassed poetry in the estimation of the majority. When Matthew Arnold wrote that " the future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay," he may have proved himself to be an inspired prophet; but I am not sure of it now, although I could... | |
 | 1905 - 722 pàgines
...the world. Matthew Arnold said of that time, with an exaggeration which is his personal equation : " There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited...received tradition which does not threaten to dissolve." For more than half a century Tennyson stood as the champion of the fundamental truths of the Christian... | |
 | Oscar Herrmann - 1905 - 248 pàgines
...opinion on the matter, since we have Matthew Arnold's authority for the statement that "in poetry, when it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time...goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay." Poetry which is to fulfil a duty of that kind must be of a different type from that of D'Annunzio.... | |
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