...leading-strings. In poetry I have a few axioms, / and you will see how far I am from their centre. • 1st. I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and...by singularity ; it should strike the reader as a vording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. 2nd. Its touches of beauty should...

...Mr. Taylor:— " In poetry I have a few axioms, and you will see how far I am from their centre, ist, I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and...highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance, and, Its touches of beauty should never be half-way, thereby making the reader breathless instead of...

...leaving him in the luxury of twilight." He disliked all poetical surprises, and affirmed that poetry "should strike the reader as a wording of his own...highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance." Shelley's genius, like the eagle he describes, Runs down the slanted sunlight of the dawn. But Beauty...

...own sake, apart from any thought or lesson they might convey. Here is his own poetic creed : " i st. I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and...almost a remembrance. 2nd. Its touches of beauty should be never half-way, thereby making the reader breathless instead of content. The rise, the progress,...

...leading-strings — In poetry I have a few axioms, and you will see how far I am from their centre. 1st. I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and...wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remejnhrance. 2d. Its touches of beauty should never be half-way, thereby making the reader breathless,...

...leading-strings — In poetry I have a few axioms, and you will see how far I am from their centre. 1st. I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, \...wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost I a remembrance. 2d. Its touches of beauty should never be half-way, thereby making the reader breathless,...

...axioms in poetry, and regretting the fact that his Endymion falls far short of his principles.26 1st. I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and...highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. "Letter LII, p. 104, to JH Reynolds, May 3, 1818. It cannot be denied, however, that Keats was a highly...

...his art, he says, " I think that poetry shoild surprise by a fine excess, and not by siigularity ; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own...highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance." " We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us. ... Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a...

...scattered through his letters. Emphasizing the use of simple means in his art, he says, ' I think that poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by...highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.' ' We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us. ... Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a...

...leading-strings — In poetry I have a few axioms, and you will see how far I am from their centre. 1st. I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and...highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. 2d. Its touches of beauty should never he half-way, thereby making the reader breathless, instead of...