 The appropriate business of poetry, (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent as pure science,) her appropriate employment, her privilege and her duty, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear; not as they exist in themselves,...  The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth - Strana xviiúprava: - 2003 - Počet stránok 295Obmedzený náhľad - O tejto knihe
 | Heathcote William Garrod - 1923 - Počet stránok 252
...the appropriate business of poetry . . .', says the Essay Supplementary, ' to treat of things . . . not as they exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses and the passions.' The remark comes from the year 1815 ; but it sorts with the teaching and practice of... | |
 | David Graham - 1925 - Počet stránok 380
...about to criticise a poem ! Just ponder it. You are a poet. Your business, your duty, your privilege, is to treat of things " not as they are but as they appear," &c., which is to say that you, the poet, are to write of Spring, or Summer, or Autumn, or Winter; of... | |
 | Annie Edwards Powell Dodds - 1926 - Počet stránok 280
...distinctly rejects the claim of poetry to know reality : " The appropriate business of poetry . . . her appropriate employment, her privilege and her...seem to exist to the senses and to the passions." * 1 Biographia, XIII. z Preface, 1815. 3 Biographia, IV. 4 Essay supplementary to the Preface, 1815.... | |
 | Annie Edwards Powell Dodds - 1926 - Počet stránok 284
...distinctly rejects the claim of poetry to know reality : r " The appropriate business of poetry . . . her appropriate employment, her privilege and her duty, is to treat of things ^ j not as they are, but as they appear ; not as they exist in theml selves, but as they seem to exist... | |
 | Gilbert Murray - 1927 - Počet stránok 294
...thinks the admission dangerous — that poetry is concerned with appearance, not with reality. "Poetry's appropriate employment, her privilege and her duty,...exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the sense and the passions." If this is true, the aim of poetry is illusion; what, then, do people mean... | |
 | Gilbert Murray - 1927 - Počet stránok 296
...thinks the admission dangerous — that poetry is concerned with appearance, not with reality. "Poetry's appropriate employment, her privilege and her duty,...exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the sense and the passions." If this is true, the aim of poetry is illusion; what, then, do people mean... | |
 | 1909 - Počet stránok 498
...art, in the minds of men of all ages, chiefly proceed; but upon Youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless,...not as they exist in themselves, but as they seem *'i exist to the senses, and to the passions. What a world 01 delusion does this acknowledged obligation... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1971 - Počet stránok 420
...they are, but as they might be, or ought to be. But to Wordsworth, the appropriate business of poetry is 'to treat of things not as they are . . , but as they seem to exist to the senses, and to the passions,' and as worked upon 'in the spirit of genuine imagination.'... | |
 | Jacob Opper - 1973 - Počet stránok 234
...the first collected edition of his poems. Here he writes, "The appropriate business of poetry . . . her appropriate employment, her privilege and her...seem to exist to the senses, and to the passions" [Wordsworth's italics].46 This arresting declaration, it will be noticed, with its radical empiricism... | |
 | René Wellek - 1981 - Počet stránok 472
...life," he justifies his choice of subject matter. Even when he says that the duty of poetry is "to treat things not as they are, but as they appear, not as...seem to exist to the senses, and to the passions," he defends the poet's emotion and transfiguration of reality and not psychological solipsism or illusionism,48... | |
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