 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1876 - 196 σελίδες
...through a psychal necessity, transient. That degree of excitement which would entitle a poem to.be so called at all cannot be sustained throughout a...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 - 1879 - 336 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 - 1881 - 588 σελίδες
...excitement. But all excitements are, through a psychal necessity, trausient. That degree of ex citement which would entitle a poem to be so called at all,...the very utmost, it flags — fails — a revulsion eusnes — and then the poein is, in effect, and in tact, no longer such. There are, no doubt, many... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1882 - 430 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 - 1882 - 226 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 can not be sustained throughout a composition of any great length. After the lapse of half an hour,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1883 - 542 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...cannot be sustained throughout a composition of any groat length. After the lapse of half an hour, at the very utmost, it flags — fails — a revulsion... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1884 - 408 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 - 1885 - 304 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...composition of any great length. After the lapse of half-an-hour, at the very utmost, it flags, fails, a revulsion ensues ; and then the poem is, in effect... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 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... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 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 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.... | |
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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... 
