The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this their poetry is conceived in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this their poetry is conceived in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
Gray, a born poet, fell upon an age of reason.
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
It always seems to me that the right sphere for Shelley's genius was the sphere of music, not of poetry.
Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry and we have Shakespeare.
Poetry is at bottom a criticism of life.
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