The Works of Matthew Arnold, Volume 4Macmillan, 1903 |
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... poetry is immense , because in poetry , where it is worthy of its high destinies , our race , as time goes on , will ... English Poets , edited by T. H. Ward . our study of poetry . In the present work it VOL . IV B I.
... poetry is immense , because in poetry , where it is worthy of its high destinies , our race , as time goes on , will ... English Poets , edited by T. H. Ward . our study of poetry . In the present work it VOL . IV B I.
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... poetry that we are invited to follow . We are here invited to trace the stream of English poetry . But whether we set ourselves , as here , to follow only one of the several streams that make the mighty river of poetry , or whether we ...
... poetry that we are invited to follow . We are here invited to trace the stream of English poetry . But whether we set ourselves , as here , to follow only one of the several streams that make the mighty river of poetry , or whether we ...
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... poetry , is inseparable from the superiority of diction and movement marking its style and manner . The two ... English poetry with them in my view . Once more I return to the early poetry of France , with which our own poetry , in its ...
... poetry , is inseparable from the superiority of diction and movement marking its style and manner . The two ... English poetry with them in my view . Once more I return to the early poetry of France , with which our own poetry , in its ...
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... poetry , this high criticism of life , has truth of substance ; and Chaucer's poetry has truth of substance . Of his ... English poetry ; he is our well of English undefiled , ' because by the lovely charm of 21 THE STUDY OF POETRY.
... poetry , this high criticism of life , has truth of substance ; and Chaucer's poetry has truth of substance . Of his ... English poetry ; he is our well of English undefiled , ' because by the lovely charm of 21 THE STUDY OF POETRY.
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... poetry ; -but this is saying nothing . The virtue is such as we shall not find , perhaps , in all English poetry , outside the poets whom I have named as the special inheritors of Chaucer's tradition . A single line , however , is too ...
... poetry ; -but this is saying nothing . The virtue is such as we shall not find , perhaps , in all English poetry , outside the poets whom I have named as the special inheritors of Chaucer's tradition . A single line , however , is too ...
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