The book Critical Essays of the Early Nineteenth Century was written by author Raymond Macdonald Alden Here you can read free online of Critical Essays of the Early Nineteenth Century book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Critical Essays of the Early Nineteenth Century a good or bad book?
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All is not poetry that passes for such: nor does verse make the whole difference between poetry and prose. The Iliad does not cease to be poetry in a literal transla- tion; and Addison's Campaign 32 has been very properly denominated a gazette in rhyme. Common prose differs from poetry, as treating for the most part either of such trite, familiar, and irksome matters of fact as convey ** A poem commemorating the Battle of Blenheim, published 1704. It was called a "gazette in rhyme" in Joseph Wa...rton'a on Pope. HAZLITT 237 no extraordinary impulse to the imagination, or else of such difficult and laborious processes of the understand- ing as do not admit of the wayward or violent move- ments either of the imagination or the passions. I will mention three works which come as near to poetry as possible without absolutely being so; namely, The Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, and the Tales of Boccaccio. Chaucer and Dryden have translated some of the last into English rhyme, but the essence and the power of poetry was there before.
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