Category: Poetry
From time immemorial it has been assumed that poetry is something which is caviare to the general public. A "poem" even to-day is supposed to be a literary composition that is in artificial language arranged in a metrical pattern, often conveying a trite idea or enshrining an...
From time immemorial it has been assumed that poetry is something which is caviare to the general public. A "poem" even to-day is supposed to be a literary composition that is i...
2. CHAPTER II"The primal and danger-breeding gift of ecstasy," says Huneker in his essay "Anarchs and Ecstasy" in _Bedouins_, "is bestowed upon few. Keats had it, and Shelley; despite his pa...
3. CHAPTER IIIAristotle was the first critic who placed little stress on the importance of metre in poetry. If the critics had followed him, instead of merely referring to his _Poetics_ and t...
4. vivid. He does not say that the prose writer may not also be a poet ifhe is vivid. In fact this is the very inference. He states also that the verse writer who aims at producing no illusion but addresses the understanding is not a poet, instancing...
5. CHAPTER IVWordsworth believed that the language used by people in poetry should be that of the natural language of men under the influence of their feelings and that the diction of metric...
6. CHAPTER VOne of the frequent sayings in the text books of literary history is that the literature of a nation always begins with poetry in verse, and that good prose is a later developme...
7. CHAPTER VIThe unrhymed iambic pentameter known as blank verse is really a form of free verse; it is a modified form of the unrhymed classical measure. It made its appearance in Italy in t...
8. CHAPTER VIIOur views of poetry, or the literature of ecstasy, illuminate many dark crannies in one of the most unfathomable caverns of aesthetic speculation; speculation of the connection...
9. CHAPTER VIIIThe first lengthy formulation of the theory of art for art's sake was made, I believe, by Gautier in the preface to his _Mademoiselle de Maupin_, in 1833. The theory itself had...
10. CHAPTER IXWe are always fascinated by the poet who comes to the aid of the people, and is even rejected by them for his advanced ideas. We like to think of the poet as one who belongs to...
11. CHAPTER XAristotle's best known contribution to literary criticism is his statement that tragedy has the effect of a catharsis upon the reader and helps him to discharge emotions of pity...
12. CHAPTER XIOriental poetry, especially that of the Arabs and the Persians, is notable for its interpenetration with ecstasy couched in intricate conventional forms. The Oriental poems abou...
13. CHAPTER XIII have not tried to present a theory of poetry, so much as to point out certain features of a particular kind of writing which I have called the literature of ecstasy. It has de...