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............................................. 115 IMITATIONS OF ENGLISH POETS ........................................................................ ...gether idle. In 1740, he did nothing but edit an edition of select Italian Poets. This year, Crousaz, a Swiss professor of note, having attacked (we t... ..., or erred in any particular point: and can it then be wondered at, if the poets in general seem resolved not to own them- 2 ‘Preface:’ to the miscel... ... ill temper. I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad poets. What we call a genius, is hard to be distinguished by a man himself ... ...die of themselves; and a memento mori to some of my vain cotemporaries the poets, to teach them that, when real merit is wanting, it avails nothing to... ...e, and others multiplies: Nor void of emblem was the mystic wall, For thus romantic Fame increases all. The temple shakes, the sounding gates unfold W...

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...This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 1, 2011. William Cowper (pronounced Cooper)was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside. In many ways, he was one of the forerunners of Romantic poetry. Samuel Taylor Co...

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...Emily Dickinson has come to be regarded as one of the quintessential poets of 19th century America. A very private poet with a very quiet and reclusive life, her poetry was published posthumously and immediately found a wide audience. While she echoed the romantic natural themes of her times, ...

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...Excerpt: PART I. It rose for them--their honey-moon--over the waters of a lake so famed as the scene of romantic raptures that they were rather proud of not having been afraid to choose it as the setting of their own. ?It required a total lack of humour, or as great a gift for it as ours, to risk the experiment,? Susy Lansing o...

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...R THEM—their honey-moon—over the waters of a lake so famed as the scene of romantic raptures that they were rather proud of not having been afraid to ... ...married couple. It was such fun to pop down and see them: it made one feel romantic and jolly. All they need do was to accept the houses in turn: go o... ...ning to see how, in contracted house- holds, children may play a part less romantic but not less use- ful than that assigned to them in fiction, throu... ...made him appear to himself as grotesque and superannuated as the hero of a romantic novel. He stood up from a bench on which he had been lounging in t... ...er blood in tune with his …. But, no! Real love, great love, the love that poets sang, and privileged and tortured beings lived and died of, that love...

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...orman giant with enormous mustaches and a thundering voice the last of the Romantics? Was he not, in his unworldly, almost ascetic, devotion to his ar... ...ng to the hills behind which the sun had sunk.” … These words of Almayer’s romantic daughter I remember tracing on the gray paper of a pad which reste... ...sion of forests and rivers and seas, far removed from a commercial and yet romantic town of the northern hemisphere. But at that moment the mood of vi... ...own, I believe, and the very one where the worthy Bovary and his wife, the romantic daughter of old Pere Renault, had some refreshment after the memor... ...he realization of childhood’s vain words, ex- pressing a light-hearted and romantic whim. It was in 1868, when nine years old or thereabouts, that whi... ...and “Don Quixote” in abridged editions; I had read in early boyhood Polish poets and some French po- ets, but I cannot say what I read on the evening ...

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...Distinguished Provincial at Paris is part two of a trilogy. Part one, T wo Poets, begins the story of Lucien, his sister Eve, and his friend David in ... ...hesse de Langeais’ ruin. The fourth, M. de Canalis, one of the most famous poets of the day, and as yet a newly risen celebrity, was prouder of his bi... ... great people who protect them, the author of Ourika, and one or two young poets with sound views.” “Mme. la Marquise,” said de Marsay, “if you give y... ...ng to the prettiest women, his dress elegant, as became the most dainty of poets. “Great heavens!” exclaimed Lucien. “Money, money at all costs! money... ...agedy, and Lamartine the poetry of meditation.” “Are you a ‘Classic’ or a ‘Romantic’?” inquired Lousteau. Lucien’s astonishment betrayed such complete... ...ory, and ink is shed in torrents. The odd part of it is that the Royalist- Romantics are all for liberty in literature, and for repealing laws and con... ...ing Lucien’s dismay at the prospect of choosing between two banners. “Be a Romantic. The Romantics are young men, and the Classics are pedants; the Ro... ...oo much of his own way in the Minerve, and the Conservateur is too blindly Romantic.” “Is he going to pay well?” “Only too much—as usual,” said the ca... ... three came in. Blondet read aloud an extremely clever article against the Romantics; Lousteau’s paragraph drew laughter, and by the 147 Balzac Duc d...

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...rman giant with enormous moustaches and a thundering voice the last of the Romantics? Was he not, in his un- worldly, almost ascetic, devotion to his ... ...behind which the sun had 13 Joseph Conrad sunk.”…These words of Almayer’s romantic daugh- ter I remember tracing on the grey paper of a pad which res... ...sion of forests and rivers and seas, far removed from a commercial and yet romantic town of the northern hemisphere. But at that moment the mood of vi... ...n, I believe, and the very one where the wor- thy Bovary and his wife, the romantic daughter of old Pere Renault, had some refreshment after the memor... ... the realisation of childhood’s vain words, expressing a light-hearted and romantic whim. It was in 1868, when nine years old or thereabouts, that whi... ...iscences Quixote” in abridged editions; I had read in early boyhood Polish poets and some French poets, but I cannot say what I read on the evening be...

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...hens was enslaved but prosperous, have lent his hand to the composition of romantic comedy. He certainly inspired that fine genius. 10 An Essay on Co... ... it. The farce of the Precieuses ridiculed and put a stop to the monstrous romantic jargon made popular by certain famous novels. The comedy of the Fe... ...auty, the adorable bundle of caprices, very feminine, very sympathetic, of romantic and sentimental fiction? Our women are taught to think so. The Agn... ...ce raised the idea of woman from the mire it was plunged into by the comic poets, or rather satiric dramatists, of the middle period of Greek Comedy p... ...f its due reward in Clouds and Birds, his po- sition as chief of the comic poets of his age was unchallenged. Plutarch very unnecessarily drags Aristo... ...e have this beautiful translucency of language: and the study of the comic poets might be recommended, if for that only. A singular ill fate befell th... ... T erence was chosen probably to please the cultivated Romans; 8 and is a romantic play with a comic intrigue, obtained in two instances, the Andria ... ... it may be said that Menander and Moliere stand alone spe- cially as comic poets of the feelings and the idea. In each of them there is a conception o... ...ant witty women have the tongue of Celimene. The reason is, that these two poets idealized upon life: the foundation of their types is real and in the...

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...ER: The measure of the words was like a beat of wings. SWITHIN: He makes poets of us. 11 George Meredith DAME DRESDEN: Spiral achieved his pinnacl... ...A: And a head, by repute. ASTRAEA: For the world’s work, yes. LYRA: Not romantic. ASTRAEA: Romantic ideas are for dreamy simperers. LYRA: Amazons...

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...ng man, though the portraits of him in later life may not satisfy the more romantic expec- tations of his admirers. He must have had at all times eyes... ...endix parison, that it suggests the remembrance of the fact—that the great poets have usually been themselves extremely exact observers of detail. It ... ...themselves extremely exact observers of detail. It has not made them great poets; but they would not be great poets without it. And when Eugenie Grand... ...at we see in Dante and Shakespeare, in Chaucer and Tennyson. But the great poets do not as a rule accumulate detail. Balzac does, and from this very a... ... Grand homme de province a Paris, 1re partie Lost Illusions:—I. The T wo Poets A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, Part 1 Illusions Perdues:—II. ...

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...0 Modeste Mignon CHAPTER VII A POET OF THE ANGELIC SCHOOL ALL YOUNG GIRLS, romantic or otherwise, can imagine the impatience in which Modeste lived fo... ...pon any writer who takes four alexandrines to express one idea. Of all the poets of our day only three, Hugo, Theophile Gautier, and De Vigny, have be... ...k hearts live, by their actions and in their hidden lives, the poetry that poets utter. They are poets themselves in soul, in tenderness, in their lon... ...s in soul, in tenderness, in their lonely vigils and meditations,—as truly poets as others of the name on paper, who fatten in the fields of literatur... ...s a hero of some gay re- sort. In the bower of clematis where you dream of poets, can you smell the odor of the cigar which drives all poetry from the... ...ted, and wholly noble. I worship the beautiful, the ideal, with- out being romantic; though I have been, in my heart of hearts, in my dreams. But I re... ... woman, and which three months of close communion of souls now rendered as romantic as the most imaginative maiden could have wished. Every one, excep... ...Her heart will justify my conduct; she will rejoice in our secret poem, so romantic, human and divine in one. You have the confession of the daughter;... ...her mind. France is the reason of the whole world. England and Germany are romantic in their marriage customs,—though even there noble families follow...

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...valley, but had spent the greater part of his life at a distance from that romantic re gion, pouring out his sweet music amid the bustle and din of c... ...t {n such a solitude, these people held daily converse with the world. The romantic pass of the Notch is a great artery, through which the life blood ... ... it from the mountain peaks and chasms, and at the very threshold of their romantic and dangerous abode. He had travelled far and alone; his whole lif... ...een told far and wide, and Will forever be a leg end of these mountains.) Poets have sung their fate. There were circumstances which led some to supp... ... the entrance, or, in the direc tion we were going, the extremity, of the romantic defile of the Notch. Before emerging from it, the rattling of whee...

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...et be said. My next example was recently quoted from Shakespeare as an example of the poet’s colour sense. Now, I do not think literature has anything... ... fancy. It were to be desired that all literary work, and chiefly works of art, issued from sound, human, healthy, and potent impulses, whether grave ... ... accuse him of a bad heart; yet, when the impulse under which he wrote was purely creative, he could give us works like Carmosine or Fantasio, in whic... ...o propound. In literature (from which I must draw my instances) the great change of the past century has been effected by the admission of detail. It ... ...ly of externals. It is no especial cultus of nature and veracity, but a mere whim of veering fashion, that has made us turn our back upon the larger, ... ...appearance of irrelevant dexterity, and reso- lutely fixed to begin no work that is not philosophical, pas- sionate, dignified, happily mirthful, or, ...

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...stic art) was something apart from life, as dangerous to it as Plato thought Poets in a Republic, and to be tolerated only when it was so lofty, unapp... ...eir natural hauteur would not let them betray surprise to the intruder. That romantic illusion has been dispelled by modern investigation, and the tra... ...arther south idle and improvi dent: France offered the happy mean which the poets are forever celebrating, and the French were early aware that the p... ...y because they are the most realistic people in the world, are also the most romantic. They have judged that the family and the state cannot be built ... .... No people are more sceptical and more religious, more real istic and more romantic, more irritable and nervous, yet more capable of a long patience...

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...town. Some of our party went to a Spanish venta, as a more con- venient or romantic place of residence than an English house; others made choice of th... ...is the only building about the Rock which has an air at all picturesque or romantic; there is a plain Roman Catholic cathedral, a hideous new Protesta... ...twinkling white houses of the opposite shore. Then the place becomes quite romantic:it is too dark to see the dust on the dried leaves; the cannon-bal... ...of muskets in a time of profound peace, the sentinel’s cry becomes no more romantic to the hearer than it is to the sandy Connaught-man or the bare-le... ... the world ever heard tell of. It seems unromantic; but these were not the romantic Knights of St. John. The heroic days of the Order ended as the l... ...r, are you not charmed to be in this famous neighbourhood, in this land of poets and heroes, of whose history your classical edu- cation ought to have... ...to me, that I can’t at present reconcile myself to you in age. I read your poets, but it was in fear and trembling; and a cold sweat is but an ill acc... ...er four were playing with a dirty pack of cards, at a barrack that English poets have christened the “Half-way House. ”Does external nature and beauty... ...erly to the people before him, whose devotions he had marked; quotes their poets, to bring them to think of the God unknown, whom they had ignorantly ...

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... is part three of a trilogy. Eve and David’s story begins in part one, Two Poets. Part one also introduces Eve’s brother, Lucien. Part two, A Distingu... ...ego the least of his ambitions. He is indolent, like all who would fain be poets; he thinks it clever to juggle with the difficulties of life instead ... ... duty which they owe to them- selves. Joking apart, no account of the most romantic adven- ture could be more mildly improbable than this of the jour-... ...it becomes intolerable to keep perpetual watch over looks and words. Great poets know this; Paul and Virginie die before youth is over; can we think o... ...King! the rightful ruler of France! T o what do we owe the genera- tion of poets and thinkers who maintain the sceptre of let- ters in the hands of Fr... ...e: Eve and David is the third part of a trilogy. Part one is entitled T wo Poets and part two is A Distinguished Provincial at Paris. In other referen...

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..., believe me, fair, Have ever drawn your mountain air, Till on this lake’s romantic strand I found a fey in fairy land!’— XXIII. ‘I well believe,’ the... ... success. I had also read a great deal, seen much, and heard more, of that romantic country where I was in the habit of spending some time every autum... ... to issue from the glen, etc. “Until the present road was made through the romantic pass which I have pre- sumptuously attempted to describe in the pr... ...n forest wild, in thicket, brake, or den.” Cf. Spenser, Virgil’s Gnat: “Of Poets Prince, whether we woon beside Faire Xanthus sprincled with Chimaeras... ...165. Cf. the name of Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh. See ii. 221 below. 451. Romantic. The MS. has “enchanting.” 457. Yesternight. We have lost this wor... ...by rude steps, to the small irregular summit of the island. A more poetic, romantic retreat could hardly be imagined: it is unique. It is completely h... ... his own lyricks as an opiate to the chief, when indisposed for sleep; but poets are not equally esteemed and honored in all countries. I happened to ... ...ry passion or fancy, and appears, therefore, at first shallower than other poets, being in reality wider and healthier” (Ruskin). 344. Bosky. Bushy, w...

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...hee more barbarous; thy study of humanity more inhuman; thy converse among poets more grovel ling, miry, and dull. All arts of civilising others rend... ...lt on t’other sex. That modern love is no such thing As what those ancient poets sing; A fire celestial, chaste, refined, Conceived and kindled in the... ... morrow, ere the setting sun, She’d all undo that she had done. But in the poets we may find A wholesome law, time out of mind, Had been confirmed by ... ...orld a secret yet; Whether the nymph, to please her swain, Talks in a high romantic strain; Or whether he at last descends To like with less seraphic ... ...w, this is Stella’s case in fact, An angel’s face, a little cracked (Could poets, or could painters fix How angels look at, thirty six): This drew us ... ...4 As when a beauteous nymph decays, We say she’s past her dancing days; So poets lose their feet by time, And can no longer dance in rhyme. Your annua...

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...ans, Arabs, &c., and is dwelt on with peculiar delight by the elder Arabic poets. That it had spread to the westernmost parts of Africa, early in the ... ...t row of the Oriental necklace. Philo of Alexandria, and the other Arabian poets, give us some idea of the importance attached by the women of Asia to... ... perhaps thus:—Milton is not an author amongst authors, not a poet amongst poets, but a power amongst powers; and the Paradise Lost is not a book amon... ...y Roman in its sublimity; and so exclusively Roman, that there, and not in poets like the Augustan, expressly mod- elling their poems on Grecian types... ...are not,)—but as the unreal opposed to the real. In all the hands of other poets, we feel that Jupiter, Mercury, Apollo, Diana, are not merely impure ... ...s, he may explore the passes of the Pyrenees; he may unthread the mazes of romantic Auvergne, or make a stretch even to the Western Alps of Savoy. But... ... the ‘Legations’ of the Papal territory. ‘Vintagers,’ at a dis- tance, how romantic a sound! Hops—on the other hand— how mercenary, nay, how culinary,... ...ppointment! We acknowledge that the English are the only nation under this romantic delusion; but so saying, we pronounce a very mixed censure upon ou... ...bolical suits of armor, under the conceit of impressing remote ages with a romantic idea of the bodily proportions in the men and horses composing the...

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...Wordsworth has his place in the Excise. You’re shabby fellows — true — but poets still, And duly seated on the immortal hill. Your bays may hide... ...for my new one); So, as I said, I ‘ll take my friend Don Juan. Most epic poets plunge ‘in medias res’ (Horace makes this the heroic turnpike ... ...n the leafy nooks Where the wild branch of the cork forest grew; There poets find materials for their books, And every now and then we read ... ...’ve told you fifty times,’ They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, ‘I’ve written fifty rhymes,’ They make you dread that they... ... pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o’er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, ‘T is th... ... Which perish in the rest, but in them were Inherent— what we mortals call romantic, And always envy, though we deem it frantic. This is in othe... ...strange adventures Had gone before him, and his wars and loves; And as romantic heads are pretty painters, And, above all, an Englishwoman’s... ...means Of feeding brats the moment his wife weans. That ‘s noble! That ‘s romantic! For my part, I think that ‘Philo genitiveness’ is (Now he... ...terflies To be pursued as food for inanition), Her charming figure and romantic history Became a kind of fashionable mystery. The women much...