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Paul Jones, an amiable enthusiast disappointed in his affections turns pirate from ennui and magnanimity cuts various masculine throats, wins various feminine hearts is hanged at the yard-arm! The catastrophe is very awkward, and very unpoetical. 'The Downing Street Review. Hm. Hm. His own poem reviewed by himself. Hm m m.
What indeed were the crusades, but the means of bringing to light, feelings, desires, passions, a lofty disinterested heroism, which the very depth of the former darkness had tended to foster and fire? If the dark ages had thus their poetical tendencies, climbing toward a full poetic expression, surely no age need or can be destitute of theirs need or can be called unpoetical.
Dobell, the elder of the two, and the longer lived, though both died comparatively young, was a Kentish man, born at Cranbrook on 5th April 1824. When he was of age his father established himself as a wine-merchant at Cheltenham, and Sydney afterwards exercised the same not unpoetical trade.
Youth, beauty, high spirits, the London season, first love warranted the genuine article parental opposition to the union of Romeo and Juliet, on the vulgar, unpoetical ground of Romeo having no particular income and vague expectations; the natural impatience of eighteen and five-and-twenty when they don't get their own way in everything; misunderstandings, ups-and-downs, reconciliations and new misunderstandings; finally one rather more serious than its predecessors, and judicious non-interference of bystanders underhanded bystanders who were secretly favouring another suitor, who wasn't so handsome and showy as Romeo certainly, but who was of sterling worth and all that sort of thing.
The consequence is that he has nothing left for life but his prejudices, his principles, and his common sense. The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures.
Browning's Aurora Leigh, for instance, the heroine's morality becomes somewhat rigid, and when she rebukes the unmarried Marian for bearing a child, and chides Romney for speaking tenderly to her after his supposed marriage with Lady Waldemar, the reader is apt to sense in her a most unpoetical resemblance to Mrs. Grundy. And if Mrs.
It would have been nobler if we had not been parties in the quarrel. Our enemies observe that neither our censure nor our praise was always impartial. Boileau. It might perhaps have been better if in some instances we had not praised or blamed so much. But in panegyric and satire moderation is insipid. Pope. Moderation is a cold unpoetical virtue. Mere historical truth is better written in prose.
But these Highlanders, with all that is said of their family pride, have forgotten the Mackenzies already, and are quite proud of their rich landlord." "That is unpoetical," said Phineas. "Yes; but then poetry is so usually false.
But in the age of the Restoration the drama had lost its elevation and poetic significance, and original narrative poetry was hardly known. Almost all the poems of the day were didactic, and the prevalence of this style of poetry is a palpable symptom of an unpoetical age. The verse-making of these forty years, after setting aside a very few works, maintains a dead level.
"A poet," Keats says, "is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no identity; he is continually in for, and filling, some other body. The poet is a luminous body, whose function is to reveal other objects, not himself, to us. But though an occasional poet lends his voice in support of our censure, the average poet would brush aside our complaints with impatience.
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