 | Richard Monckton Milnes (1st baron Houghton.) - 1848 - 328 páginas
...from their centre. 1st. I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity ; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. 2nd. Its touches of beauty should never be halfway, thereby making the reader breathless, instead of... | |
 | John Keats - 1848 - 414 páginas
...from their centre. 1st. I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity ; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. 2nd. Its touches of beauty should never be halfway, thereby making the reader breathless, instead of... | |
 | 1848 - 602 páginas
...For example : — 1st. I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity ; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a resemblance. 2nd. Its touches of beauty should never be halfway, thereby making the reader breathless,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1848 - 616 páginas
...For example : — 1st. I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity ; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a resemblance. 2nd. Its touches of beauty should never be halfway, thereby making the reader breathless,... | |
 | 1848 - 572 páginas
...For example : — 1st. I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity ; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a resemblance. 2nd. Its touches of beauty should never be halfway, thereby making the reader breathless,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 604 páginas
...although in magnificence, leaving him in the luxury of twilight." He disliked all poetical surprises, aud affirmed that poetry "should strike the reader as...lines, like the celestial bodies, and even in movement stimulates rest. Beauty was the adornment of Shelley's poetry ; it was the very essence of Keats's.... | |
 | 1850 - 600 páginas
...although in magnificence, leaving him in the luxury of twilight." He disliked all poetical surprises, aud affirmed that poetry " should strike the reader as...lines, like the celestial bodies, and even in movement stimulates rest. Beauty was the adornment of Shelley's poetry ; it was the very essence of Keats's.... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 páginas
...exquisiteness. Axiom 1. — " I think poetry should surprise by à fine excess, and not by singularity ; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. 2. — " Its touches of beauty should never be half-way, thereby making the reader breathless instead... | |
 | 1894 - 1020 páginas
...his art, he says, " I think that poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity ; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance." " We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us. ... Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a... | |
 | John Keats, Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - 1867 - 388 páginas
...their centre. -- 1st. I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity ; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. 2nd. Its touches of beauty should never be half-way, thereby making the reader breathless, instead... | |
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I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. 
