| Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 522 ページ
...its influence in my own critical estimate of the poem. I hold that a lonq^ppem does not ! exist: I maintain that the phrase, " a long poem,'' is simply...contradiction in terms. I need scarcely observe that a_ poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating- tlin smiL The value of the poem... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1858 - 332 ページ
...had its influence in my own critical estimate of the poem. I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, " a long poem," is simply...elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio 217 FF of this elevating excitement. But all excitements are, through a psychal necessity, transient.... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1869 - 298 ページ
...had its influence in my own critical estimate of the poem. I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, " a long poem," is simply...elevating excitement. But all excitements are, through a psychical necessity, transient. That degree of excitement which would entitle a poem to be so called... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1876 - 196 ページ
...had its influence in my own critical estimate of the poem. I hold that a long jDoem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase " a long poem " is simply...That degree of excitement which would entitle a poem to.be so called at all cannot be sustained throughout a composition of any great length. After the... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1876 - 522 ページ
...critical estimate of the poem. I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase. "along poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms. I...through a psychal necessity, transient. That degree of ex citement which would entitle a poem to be so called at all, cannot be sustained throughout a composition... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1881 - 588 ページ
...critical estimate of the poem. I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "along poem,'' is simply a flat contradiction in terms. I...inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The valne of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. But all excitements are, through a... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1882 - 430 ページ
...had its influence in my own critical estimate of the poem. I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase " a long poem " is simply a flat contradiction in terms. value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. But all excitements are, through a... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1885 - 304 ページ
...had its iufluence in my own critical estimate of the poem. I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase "a long poem" is simply a...elevating excitement. But all excitements are, through a psychical necessity, transient. That degree of excitement which would entitle a poem to be so called... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Lavante, Lambert A. Wilmer - 1887 - 110 ページ
...morals," the most generally correct of our poets."— Poe, in " The Literati." (See note 43.) 56 <4I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title...only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. . . . He who shall simply sing, with however glowing enthusiasm, or with however vivid a truth of description,... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Lavante, Lambert A. Wilmer - 1887 - 118 ページ
...Principle." 17 Griswold praises Sprague for his good sense, vivid descriptions, and faultless style. " I hold that the phrase * a long poem ' is simply a flat contradiction in terms. A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites by elevating the soul."—Ibid. • 13 *' In... | |
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