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Poetry and Picture are Arts of a like nature, and both are busie about imitation. It was excellently said of Plutarch, Poetry was a speaking Picture, and Picture a mute Poesie. For they both invent, fame, and devise many things. This structural and static conception of poetry is well exemplified by his comparisons.
Since great Ronsarde and learned Bellay have raised our French Poesie unto that height of honour where it now is: I see not one of these petty ballad-makers, or prentise dogrell rymers, that doth not bombast his labours with high-swelling and heaven-disimbowelling words, and that doth not marshall his cadences verie neere as they doe.
She is a Sanford and has a Sanford's wealth, but 'twas not for me. She adores a horse and worships a horseman. This I gathered from our too brief converse. I strove to win her ear with poesie, but she bade me cease. Her soul is not attuned to melody, she'd none of mine. She preferred my Lady Truscott and buttered muffins."
So in the most quoted passage from Sidney's Defense, it is a "tale forsooth," which draws old men from the chimney corner, and children from play, and "the narration" which furnishes the groundplot of poesie.
"But it is exactly like Lord Byron's!" shrieked Pinchas. "Mein Gott! All night I lie avake vaiting for the post. At eight o'clock the post comes but The Flag of Judah she vaves not! I rush round here and now my beautiful poem vill not appear." He seized the sheet again, then cried fiercely: "You have a tale, 'The Waters of Babylon, by Ebenezer the fool-boy, but my poesie have you not.
About the compositions themselves, if we are to take them as the poesie that Titian loved to call them, there is a certain want of significance, neither the divine nor the human note being struck with any depth or intensity of vibration.
The fight was inaugurated by a preliminary literary skirmish, which was, at the outset, limited to the university students; but it gradually assumed an increasingly bitter character, both parties growing more and more exasperated. Welhaven published a pamphlet, Om Henrik Wergelands Digtekunst og Poesie, in which he mercilessly exposed the weak sides of his adversary's poetry.
Some of his countrymen, notably Brunetiere in the Evolution de la Poesie Lyrique en France au XIX Siecle, and Legouis in the Defense de la Poesie Francaise, have discussed more cautiously and delicately than Taine himself the racial and historic conditions affecting lyric poetry in various periods.
As Sir Philip Sidney, Spenser's friend, says: "Do they not know that a tragedy is tied to the laws of Poesie and not of History, not bound to follow the story, but, having liberty, either to fain a quite new matter, or to frame the history to the most tragical convenience?"* *Sidney, Apologie for Poetrie.
Then came William Webbe's Discourse of English Poesie, 1586, which had been preceded by Sidney's charming Defence of Poetry, composed in or about 1579, but not published till 1593. This and Puttenham's elaborate treatise, The Art of English Poesie contrived into three books , had indeed marked an epoch in the history of criticism.
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