...ought to be called unsoundness. By poetry we mean, not of course all writing in verse, nor even all good writing in verse. Our definition excludes many metrical compositions which, on oilier grounds, deserve llio highest praise. By poetry we mean, Ihe art of employing words in such...

...effort of the human mind ; it is the art of painting by words the passions and emotions of the soul in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination by words what the painter does by means of colours. It is the eloquence and overflowings of a mind...

...of fiction, whether penned in prosaic or versified diction. An able Reviewer* has described it to be the art of employing words in such a manner as to...means of words, what the painter does by means of colour. Dr. Johnson has defined it to be " the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination...

...ought to be called unsoundness. By poetry we mean, not of course all writing in verse, nor even all good writing in verse. Our definition excludes many...by means of words what the painter does by means of colors. Thus the greatest of poets has described it, in lines universally admired for the vigor and...

...passions throw over it, but in designs, according to her own conception. Poetry, as Macauley has it, is the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colors. It does more ; it infinitely transcends painting : " painting gives the object itself; poetry,...

...Dante de vulgari eloquio 2. 4: poesis fictio rhetorica in musicaque positn Mac. Ess. I. 7: poetry, the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination (cf. 327. J. Lives L 10t 180. Si. 495). Blair Rhetoric III. 85 erklärt Poetry als language of passion...

...But the whole force of this writer's argument lies in the definition which he has given to Poetry. " By Poetry, we mean the art of employing words in such...manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination. * * * * Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind, as a magic lantern produces an illusion...

...much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness. By poetry wo mean not all writing in verse, nor even all good writing in verse. Our definition excludes many...other grounds, deserve the highest praise. By poetry wo mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination, the...

...pleasure ought to be called unsoundiiess. By poetry we mean not all writing in verse, nor even all good writing in verse. Our definition excludes many...the art of employing words in such a manner as to pioduce an illusion on the imagination, the art of doing by means of words what the painter does l>y...

...is the music of language, answering to the music of the mind," says Hazlitt. Macaulay says, it is " The art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colours." And thus Shakspere has defined it : — As the imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown,...