 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1850 - 438 σελίδες
...of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. But all excitements are, through a psychal necessity, transient. That degree of excitement which...lapse of half an hour, at the very utmost, it flags — fails^a revulsion ensues — and then the poem is, in effect, and in fact, no longer such. There... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1850 - 462 σελίδες
...of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. But all excitements are, through a psychal necessity, transient. That degree of excitement which...the poem is, in effect, and in fact, no longer such. There are, no doubt, many who have found difficulty in reconciling the critical dictum that the " Paradise... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 522 σελίδες
...of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. But all excitements are, through a psychal necessity, transient. That degree of excitement which...would entitle a poem to be so called at all, cannot he sustained throughout a composition of any great length. After the lapse of half an hour, at the... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1858 - 332 σελίδες
...poem is in the ratio 217 FF of this elevating excitement. But all excitements are, through a psychal necessity, transient. That degree of excitement which...the poem is, in effect and in fact, no longer such. There are, no doubt, many who have found difficulty in reconciling the critical dictum that the " Paradise... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1858 - 388 σελίδες
...whieh would entitle a poem to be so ealled at all, eannot -1к' sustained throughout a eomposition of any great length. After the lapse of half an hour,...— a revulsion ensues — and then the poem is, in effeet and in faet, no longer sueh. There are, no doubt, many who have found diffieulty in reeoneiling... | |
 | 1859 - 528 σελίδες
...of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. But all excitements are, through a psychal necessity, transient. That degree of excitement which...the poem is, in effect, and in fact, no longer such. There are, no doubt, many who have found difficulty in reconciling the critical dictum that the " Paradise... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1866 - 332 σελίδες
...of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. But all excitements are, through a psychal necessity, transient. That degree of excitement which...the poem is, in effect and in fact, no longer such. There are, no doubt, many who have found difficulty in reconciling the critical dictum that the "Paradise... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1869 - 298 σελίδες
...the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. But all excitements are, through a psychical necessity, transient. That degree of excitement which...the poem is in effect, and in fact, no longer such. There are, no doubt, many who have found difficulty in reconciling the critical dictum that the " Paradise... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1875 - 400 σελίδες
...of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. But all excitements are, through a psychal necessity, transient. That degree of excitement which...the poem is, in effect, and in fact, no longer such. There are, no doubt, many who have found difficulty in reconciling the critical dictum that the " Paradise... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1876 - 522 σελίδες
...excitement. But all excitements are, through a psychal necessity, transient. That degree of ex citement which would entitle a poem to be so called at all,...the poem is, in effect, and in fact, no longer such. There are, no doubt, many who have found difficulty in reconciling the critical dictum that the " Paradise... | |
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... is simply a flat contradiction in terms. I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. But all excitements are, through... 
