 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
 | 1928 - 782 pàgines
...humanistic religion unburdened with any allegorical myth, he might have said that in Confucianism, "our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay", instead of putting his faith in mere poetry. The modern man refuses to believe in the story of Creation,... | |
 | Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, George Henry Payne, Henry Goddard Leach - 1909 - 608 pàgines
...of the peaks of snow; Tell me of the torrents' flow. POETRY AND THE PRACTICAL MAN BY HARRY T. BAKER "THE future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. . . . More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us,... | |
 | Graham Hough - 1978 - 260 pàgines
...that began with Matthew Arnold and has been going on with steadily decreasing momentum ever since. II There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited...received tradition which does not threaten to dissolve. . . . More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us,... | |
 | Denys Thompson - 1978 - 252 pàgines
...arts Nearly a hundred years ago Matthew Arnold wrote: 'The future of poetry is immense, because in our poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies,...time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay' (p. 1). Not much later the young WB Yeats expressed his wish for the future of poetry: 'I would have... | |
 | Giles Gunn - 1979 - 265 pàgines
...religious consolation. The opening paragraph of "The Study of Poetry" still rings with his fervor: The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...which does not threaten to dissolve. Our religion has materialized itself in the fact, in the supposed fact; it has attached its emotion to the fact, and... | |
 | David Daiches - 1969 - 356 pàgines
...is great poetry, great poetry of any kind has a religious significance and is basic in civilization. "The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay." If this is so, then we have a paramount responsibility to discover what is truly great poetry. "The... | |
 | Michael Harry Levenson - 1986 - 272 pàgines
...boldly confident of the result, as is Arnold when he intimates the superseding of religion by poetry: The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...which does not threaten to dissolve. Our religion has materialized itself in the fact, in the supposed fact; it has attached its emotion to the fact, and... | |
 | Jan Aler - 1985 - 106 pàgines
...erinnern, dasandere Tragweite besitze. Sie bewege sich nicht nur in der Nähe der Religion (S.306): The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer und surer stay.... The strongest pari of our religion to-day is its unconsious poetry.... and most... | |
 | Stephen Prickett - 1986 - 324 pàgines
...perhaps, worth recalling the actual passage of Matthew Arnold that Levine made so central to his argument: The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry...which does not threaten to dissolve. Our religion has materialized itself in the fact, and in the supposed fact; it has attached its emotion to the fact,... | |
 | Antony Easthope - 1989 - 240 pàgines
...forward for the next chapter. DARWINIAN CRISES Do we move ourselves, or are moved . . . ? Tennyson, Maud There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited...received tradition which does not threaten to dissolve': so Matthew Arnold cites his own work in 1880 (1956, p. 1). There is in the nineteenth century a proliferation... | |
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