CONTENTS Page AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION, “WHAT IS POETRY ?" SELECTIONS FROM SPENSER, WITH CRITICAL NOTICE ARCHIMAGO'S HERMITAGE AND THE HOUSE OF MORPHEUS 78 THE CAVE OF MAMMON AND GARDEN OF PROSERPINE A GALLERY OF PICTURES FROM SPENSER (Spenser considered as the Poet of the Painters.) CUPID USURPING THE THRONE OF JUPITER MARRIAGE PROCESSION OF THE THAMES AND MEDWAY . 112 VENUS IN SEARCH OF CUPID, COMING TO DIANA AN ANGEL WITH A PILGRIM AND A FAINTING KNIGHT 122 A KNIGHT IN BRIGHT ARMOUR, LOOKING INTO A CAVE · 128 MALBECCO SEES HELLENORE DANCING WITH THE SATYRS 129 THE NYMPHS AND GRACES DANCING TO A SHEPHERD'S PIPE; OR, APOTHEOSIS OF A POET'S MISTRESS A SATYR PRESENTS A BASKET OF FRUIT TO THE FAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS A SPOT FOR LOVE TALES • 212 214 . 214 MORNING AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION WHAT IS POETRY INCLUDING REMARKS ON VERSIFICATION. POETRY, strictly and artistically so called, that is to say, considered not merely as poetic feeling, which is more or less shared by all the world, but as the operation of that feeling, such as we see it in the poet's book, is the utterance of a passion for truth, beauty, and power, embodying and illustrating its conceptions by imagination and fancy, and modulating its language on the principle of variety in uniformity. Its means are whatever the universe contains and its ends, pleasure and exaltation. Poetry stands between nature and convention, keeping alive among us the enjoyment of the external and the spiritual world : it has constituted the most enduring fame of nations; and, next to Love and Beauty, which are its parents, is the greatest proof to man of the pleasure to be found in all things, and of the probable riches of infinitude. B |
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