 It is important, therefore, to hold fast to this : that poetry is at bottom a criticism of life ; that the greatness , of a poet lies in his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life, — to the question : How to live.  Appletons' Journal - Page 821880Full view - About this book
 | Periodicals - 1881 - 588 pages
...pathos. He deals only with familiar feelings and affections. But if poetry is " a criticism of life and the greatness of a poet lies in his powerful and beautiful...application of ideas to life, to the question how to live," to Thackeray must be assigned a high place' among the poets of the century. His theme is life as it... | |
 | 1894 - 284 pages
...in essence, a criticism of life ; that the true poet has ever before him the question how to live ; that the greatness of a poet lies in his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life. The same question, which in as great a degree engages the mind of the ethical and religious teacher,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1879 - 362 pages
...human life itself is in so preponderating a degree moral. It is important, therefore, to hold fast to this : that poetry is at bottom a criticism of...ideas to life, — to the question : How to live. Morals are often treated in a narrow and false fashion, they are bound up with systems of thought and... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1879 - 834 pages
...human life itself is in so preponderating a degree moral. It is important, therefore, to hold fast to this : that poetry is at bottom a criticism of...of ideas to life — to the question, How to live. Morals are often treated in a narrow and false fashion, they are bound up with systems of thought and... | |
 | English periodicals - 1879 - 562 pages
...human life itself is in so preponderating a degree moral. It is important, therefore, to hold fast to this : that poetry is at bottom a criticism of...of ideas to life — to the question, How to live. Morals are often treated in a narrow and false fashion, they are bound up with systems of thought and... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1879 - 390 pages
...human life itself is in so preponderating a degree moral. It is important, therefore, to hold fast to this : that poetry is at bottom a criticism of...ideas to life, — to the question : How to live. Morals are often treated in a narrow and false fashion, they are bound up with systems of thought and... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1880 - 362 pages
...human life itself is in so preponderating a degree moral. It is important, therefore, to hold fast to this: that poetry is at bottom a criticism of life...his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life,—to the question : How to live. Morals are often treated in a narrow and false fashion, they... | |
 | United States - 1881 - 1180 pages
...He deals ' only with familiar feelings and affections. But if ; poetry 'is "a criticism of life and the greatness of a poet lies in his powerful and beautiful...application of ideas to life, to the question how to live," to Thackeray must be assigned a high place among the poets of the century. His theme is life as it... | |
 | American literature - 1881 - 884 pages
...pathos. He deals only with familiar feelings and affections. But if poetry is " a criticism of life and the greatness of a poet lies in his powerful and beautiful...application of ideas to life, to the question how to live," to Thackeray must be assigned a high place among the poets of the century. His theme is life as it... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - American literature - 1882 - 492 pages
...poetry." — BW Church. " It is important to hold fast to this: poetry is at bottom a criticism of life ; the greatness of a poet lies in his powerful and beautiful...of ideas to life, — to the question, How to live. Wordsworth deals with life, because he deals with that in which life really consists. Wordsworth deals... | |
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