The Realistic Revolt in Modern PoetryB. Blackwell, 1922 - 83 pages |
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achieved Alexandrian ancient ARTHUR MELVILLE artist attempt background Ballads beauty become Bottomley's Browning Carl Sandburg century civilisation common conscious dead echo Eliot Elizabethan emotion English poetry eternal example experience expression fact feel flowers gone Gordon Bottomley Greek Hardy heart idea idiom imperfect impossible infinitely inspiration introspective intuition J. E. Flecker Kipling language less literary literature Lycophron lyric medieval mental mind modern poetry moral nature ness never Osbert Sitwell passion past perhaps philosophy poem poet of Victorianism poet's poetic primitive prosaic prose reaction REALISTIC REVOLT reason rejection result REVOLT IN MODERN rhymes rhythm Romantics Rupert Brooke Sandburg Sassoon simplicity sincere songs sophistication soul Spenser stars Sturge Moore subjects Swinburne symbol T. S. Eliot tendency Tennyson terrible Muses theme things thought tion tradition true truth ugly universe Vachel Lindsay vast verse Vickridge W. J. Turner Walt Whitman Whitman Whitmanists Wilfred Owen Wordsworth writer
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Page 40 - God gave all men all earth to love, But since our hearts are small, Ordained for each one spot should prove Beloved over all...
Page 44 - Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
Page 12 - Poet will sleep then no more than at present ; he will be ready to follow the steps of the Man of science, not only in those general indirect effects, but he will be at his side, carrying sensation into the midst of the objects of the science itself.
Page 12 - If the labours of Men of Science should ever create any material revolution, direct or indirect, in our condition, and in the impressions which we habitually receive...
Page 50 - The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM...
Page 48 - Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table...
Page 12 - If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man.
Page 10 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven. And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.
Page 33 - My friends, we will not go again or ape an ancient rage, Or stretch the folly of our youth to be the shame of age, But walk with clearer eyes and ears this path that wandereth, And see undrugged in evening light the decent inn of death; For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen, Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
Page 15 - Dead poets, philosophs, priests, Martyrs, artists, inventors, governments long since, Language-shapers on other shores, Nations once powerful, now reduced, withdrawn, or desolate, I dare not proceed till I respectfully credit what you have left wafted hither, I have perused it, own it is admirable, ( moving awhile among it, ) Think nothing can ever be greater, nothing can ever deserve more than it deserves, Regarding it all intently a long while, then dismissing it, I stand in my place with my own...