| Albert B. Olston - 1902 - 440 หน้า
...his reason, has always been much misunderstood. Lord Macaulay, in his " Essay on Milton," writes : "Perhaps no man can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry,...gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness. By poetry, we mean not, of course, all writings in verse, nor even all good writing in verse. . . .... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1902 - 364 หน้า
...to make up a man, a real, ;living, individual man? 10 14. Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can x even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of...so much pleasure ought to be called, unsoundness. By poetry we mean not all writing in verse, nor even all good 15 writing in verse. Our definition excludes... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 174 หน้า
...elements in such a manner as to make up a man, a real, living, individual man ? 20 Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind, if any thing which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness. By poetry we mean not all writing... | |
| Harriet Louise Keeler, Mary Elizabeth Adams - 1906 - 300 หน้า
...argument is really a syllogism with the major premise suppressed. It is as follows : — Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a...gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness. By poetry we mean not all writing in verse, nor even all good writing in verse. By poetry we mean the... | |
| 1892 - 1058 หน้า
...of his influence to this view. 'Perhaps no person can be a poet,' he says in his essay on Milton, ' or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness...so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness.' Again : ' Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry, but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are... | |
| Stephen Phillips, Galloway Kyle - 1923 - 448 หน้า
...This conception of poetry makes us wonder what Macaulay of the lays and essays meant when he wrote : " Perhaps no man can be a poet or can even enjoy poetry...indeed, is essential to poetry, but it is the truth of madness. The reasoning is just, but the premises are false." Now my thesis has been simply that... | |
| Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 456 หน้า
...TENNYSON — The Passing of Arthur 182. POETS AND CHILDREN ABANDON THEMSELVES TO MADNESS Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a...gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness. By poetry we mean not all writing in verse, nor even all good writing in verse. Our definition excludes... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 หน้า
...never finds its way back is the lunatic's. GK Chesterton (1874-1936) British author Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. Lord Macaulay (1800-1859) English historian Poetry is the language of a state of crisis. Stéphane... | |
| James L. Kugel - 1990 - 268 หน้า
...by Thomas Macaulay, quoted in Wimsatt and Brooks, Literary Criticism, pp. 414-15: "Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. . . . Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry, but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are just;... | |
| Stuart Curran - 1993 - 330 หน้า
...all. We think that, as civilisation advances, poetry almost necessarily declines... Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind... In a rude state of society men are children with a greater variety of ideas. It is therefore in such... | |
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