 | Richard Monckton Milnes (1st baron Houghton.) - 1848 - 328 sidor
...from their centre. 1st. I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity ; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. 2nd. Its touches of beauty should never be halfway, thereby making the reader breathless, instead of... | |
 | John Keats - 1848 - 414 sidor
...from their centre. 1st. I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity ; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. 2nd. Its touches of beauty should never be halfway, thereby making the reader breathless, instead of... | |
 | 1848 - 602 sidor
...For example : — 1st. I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity ; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a resemblance. 2nd. Its touches of beauty should never be halfway, thereby making the reader breathless,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1848 - 616 sidor
...For example : — 1st. I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity ; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a resemblance. 2nd. Its touches of beauty should never be halfway, thereby making the reader breathless,... | |
 | 1848 - 572 sidor
...For example : — 1st. I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity ; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a resemblance. 2nd. Its touches of beauty should never be halfway, thereby making the reader breathless,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 604 sidor
...although in magnificence, leaving him in the luxury of twilight." He disliked all poetical surprises, aud affirmed that poetry "should strike the reader as...lines, like the celestial bodies, and even in movement stimulates rest. Beauty was the adornment of Shelley's poetry ; it was the very essence of Keats's.... | |
 | 1850 - 600 sidor
...although in magnificence, leaving him in the luxury of twilight." He disliked all poetical surprises, aud affirmed that poetry " should strike the reader as...lines, like the celestial bodies, and even in movement stimulates rest. Beauty was the adornment of Shelley's poetry ; it was the very essence of Keats's.... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 sidor
...exquisiteness. Axiom 1. — " I think poetry should surprise by ā fine excess, and not by singularity ; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. 2. — " Its touches of beauty should never be half-way, thereby making the reader breathless instead... | |
 | 1894 - 1020 sidor
...his art, he says, " I think that poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity ; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance." " We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us. ... Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a... | |
 | John Keats, Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - 1867 - 388 sidor
...their centre. -- 1st. I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity ; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. 2nd. Its touches of beauty should never be half-way, thereby making the reader breathless, instead... | |
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I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. 
