Poetry, with Reference to Aristotle's Poetics

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Ginn, 1891 - 36 lappuses
 

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32. lappuse - HISTORY hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more I exact goodness, and a more absolute variety than can be found in the nature of things.
27. lappuse - Hence it would seem that attention to the language, for its own sake, evidences not the true poet, but the mere artist. Pope is said to have tuned our tongue. We certainly owe much to him — his diction is rich, musical, and expressive : still he is not on this account a poet ; he elaborated his composition for its own sake. If we give him poetical praise on this account, we may as appropriately bestow it on a tasteful cabinet-maker.
24. lappuse - According to the above theory, revealed religion should be especially poetical — and it is so in fact. While its disclosures have an originality in them to engage the intellect, they have a beauty to satisfy the moral nature. It presents us with those ideal forms of excellence in which a poetical mind delights, and with which all grace and harmony are associated.
11. lappuse - There is an ambiguity in the word "poetry," which is taken to signify both the gift itself, and the written composition which is the result of it. Thus there is an apparent, but no real contradiction, in saying a poem may be but partially poetical ; in some passages more so than in others ; and sometimes not poetical at all. We only maintain, not that...
21. lappuse - These illustrations of Aristotle's doctrine may suffice. Now let us proceed to a fresh position ; which, as before, shall first be broadly stated, then modified and explained. How does originality differ from the poetical talent ? Without affecting the accuracy of a definition, we may call the latter the originality of right moral feeling. Originality may perhaps be defined the power of abstracting for one's self, and is in thought what strength of mind is in action.
23. lappuse - Of course, then, we do not mean to imply that a poet must necessarily display virtuous and religious feeling ; we are not speaking of the actual material of poetry, but of its sources. A right moral state of heart is the formal and scientific condition of a poetical mind.
10. lappuse - It delineates that perfection which the imagination suggests, and to which as a limit the present system of Divine Providence actually tends. Moreover, by confining the attention to one series of events and scene of action, it bounds and finishes off the confused luxuriance...
13. lappuse - ... with a meaning, beauty, and harmonious order not their own. Thomson has sometimes been commended for the novelty and minuteness of his remarks upon nature. This is not the praise of a poet ; whose office rather is to represent known phenomena in a new connection or medium. In L'Allegro and II Penseroso the poetical magician invests the commonest scenes of a country life with the hues, first of a cheerful, then of a pensive imagination. It is the charm of the descriptive poetry of a religious...
17. lappuse - Opinions, feelings, manners, and customs, are made poetical by the delicacy or splendour with which they are expressed. This is seen in the ode, elegy, sonnet, and ballad ; in which a single idea, perhaps, or familiar occurrence, is invested by the poet with pathos or dignity. The 'ballad of Old Robin Gray will serve for an instance, out of a multitude ; again, Lord Byron's Hebrew Melody, beginning, " Were my bosom as false,
24. lappuse - ... other is out of taste. Lord Byron's Manfred is in parts intensely poetical ; yet the delicate mind naturally shrinks from the spirit which here and there reveals itself, and the basis on which the drama is built. From a perusal of it we should infer, according to the above theory, that there was right and fine feeling in the poet's mind, but that the central and consistent character was wanting. From the history of his life we know this to be the fact. The connexion between want of the religious...

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