 | John Burroughs, Edmund Clarence Stedman - American essays - 1882 - 194 pages
...immense vistas opened up by astronomy and geology. This poet sees the earth as one of the orbs, and lias sought to adjust his imagination to the modern problems...readers — than is contained in these sentences. JOHN BURROUGHS. XL AUSTIN DOBSON. XI. AUSTIN DOBSON. THEEE is something kindred to humorous poetry... | |
 | Walt Whitman - American essays - 1882 - 412 pages
...of little or no imagination, but indispensable to the highest purposes. Poetic style, when address'd to the soul, is less definite form, outline, sculpture,...music, half-tints, and even less than half-tints. True, it may be architecture ; but again it may be the forest wild-wood, or the best effect thereof,... | |
 | Walt Whitman - Poets, American - 1883 - 390 pages
...of little or no imagination, but indispensable to the highest purposes. Poetic style, when address'd to the soul, is less definite form, outline, sculpture,...music, half-tints, and even less than half-tints. True, it may be architecture; but again it may be the forest wild-wood, or the best effect thereof,... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1884 - 72 pages
...leave dim escapes and outlets — must possess a certain fluid, aerial character ; akin to space tself, obscure to those of little or no imagination, but...music, half-tints, and even less than half-tints. True, it may be architecture ; but again it may be the forest wild-wood, or the best effects thereof,... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1884 - 64 pages
...to space tself, obscure to those of little or no imagination, but indispensable 4 8 < Walt Whitman. to the highest purposes. Poetic style, when addressed...music, half-tints, and even less than half-tints. True, it may be architecture ; but again it may be the forest wild-wood, or the best effects thereof,... | |
 | 1889 - 706 pages
...of the " art of God." Whitman has a noteworthy saying in this connection. " Poetic style," he says, "when addressed to the soul is less definite form,...music, half-tints, and even less than half-tints." These words are spoken in defence of a certain obscurity ; but if we stop with the word music, they... | |
 | John Vance Cheney - Hebrew poetry - 1891 - 312 pages
...of the "art of God." Whitman has a noteworthy saying in this connection. " Poetic style," he says, " when addressed to the soul is less definite form,...music, halftints, and even less than half-tints." These words are spoken in defence of a certain obscurity ; but if we stop with the word " music," they... | |
 | Walt Whitman - American literature - 1901 - 566 pages
...of little or no imagination, but indispensable to the highest purposes. Poetic style, when address'd to the soul, is less definite form, outline, sculpture,...music, half-tints, and even less than half-tints. True, it may be architecture ; but again it may be the forest wild-wood, or the best effect thereof,... | |
 | John Burroughs - Criticism - 1902 - 288 pages
...he could see only these qualities in Nature. Or the Greek idyllic poets, whose Nature is simple ami fresh like spring water, or the open air, or the taste...readers — than is contained in these sentences. XV SUGGESTITENESS fTlHEKE is a quality that adheres to one man's -*- writing or speaking, and not to another's,... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1902 - 280 pages
...Earlier than that, the quaint and affected Nature of the Elizabethan poets; later the inelodramatic and wild-eyed Nature of the Byronic muse; and lastly,...is contained in these sentences. XV SUGGESTIVENESS rriHERE is a quality that adheres to one man's - 1 - -writing or speaking, and not to another's, that... | |
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Rivulets," in which he says that he has not been afraid of the charge of obscurity in his poems, " because human thought, poetry or melody, must have dim escapes and outlets, — must possess a certain fluid, aerial character, akin to space itself, obscure... 
