The Liberating Gods: Emerson on Poets and PoetryUniversity of Miami Press, 1971 - 128 pages |
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Page 22
... Parnassus , composed when he was past seventy , differentiates be- tween " poets by education and practice " and " poets by nature❞— that is , by inspiration . Pope , he says , was the best example of the poet by education and practice ...
... Parnassus , composed when he was past seventy , differentiates be- tween " poets by education and practice " and " poets by nature❞— that is , by inspiration . Pope , he says , was the best example of the poet by education and practice ...
Page 113
... Parnassus . " These poems are " The Cloud " and " The Skylark . " 7. In an early journal entry concerning Byron's death , Emerson says that although Byron was " a man of dreadful history ... the light of sublimer existence was on his ...
... Parnassus . " These poems are " The Cloud " and " The Skylark . " 7. In an early journal entry concerning Byron's death , Emerson says that although Byron was " a man of dreadful history ... the light of sublimer existence was on his ...
Page 118
... Parnassus . ... 53. Poe , on the other hand , predicted in 1842 that Lowell would be- come a " genius of the highest rank " ( The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe , XI , 125 ) , and said in his review ( Ibid . , XI , 243- 249 ) of ...
... Parnassus . ... 53. Poe , on the other hand , predicted in 1842 that Lowell would be- come a " genius of the highest rank " ( The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe , XI , 125 ) , and said in his review ( Ibid . , XI , 243- 249 ) of ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
Two The Function of the Poet | 31 |
THREE The Poets Use of Subject Matter | 43 |
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