...inclined, so far at least as regards all the higher kinds of poetry, to accept Mr. Ruskin's definition : " the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions." But he who doubts and hesitates, where others believe, has surely cut off from himself an immense and...

...elevated thouo-ht and feeling. Mr. Buskin's conclusion, ( < after O *— ' some embarrassment," is that " poetry is the suggestion by the imagination of noble grounds for the noble emotions." I doubt if we can even assume " noble grounds " as its essential, still less as its discriminative quality....

...the primary business of the poet ; to what extent they confirm Mr. Ruskin's definition of poetry, ' the suggestion, by the imagination of noble grounds for the noble emotions,' — these points, however, must be left to the reader. Laws of taste are not as those of morals ; nor...

...attain anything like a definite explanation of the character which actually distinguishes it from prose. I come, after some embarrassment, to the conclusion,...mean, by the noble emotions, those four principal secret passions — Love, Veneration, Admiration, and Joy (this latter especially, if unselfish) ;...

...attain anything like a definite explanation of the character which actually distinguishes it from prose. I come, after some embarrassment, to the conclusion,...mean, by the noble emotions, those four principal secret passions — Love, Veneration, Admiration, and Joy (this latter especially, if unselfish) ;...

...In what does ' noble use ' of material consist ? In what, greatness of art ? ' I come,' he says, ' after some embarrassment, to the conclusion that poetry...suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for noble emotions. I mean by the noble emotions these four principal sacred passions, — love, veneration,...

...may, in a general sense, be defined to be the expression of the imagination ;" and Mr. Ruskin came to the conclusion that " poetry is the suggestion...imagination of noble grounds for the noble emotions." It thus became the first commandment of English criticism that in poetry there are no gods but one—...

...pleasures of the understanding. Poetry is the expression of the beautiful by words. Kuskin defines it " as the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions." It is a product of the imagination, and gives to it its best culture. It is, therefore, of great importance...

...anything like a definite explana tion of the character which actually distinguishes it from prose. I come, after some embarrassment, to the conclusion,...grounds for the noble emotions." I mean, by the noble emo tions, those four principal secret passions — Love, Veneration, Admiration, and Joy (this latter...

...actually distinguishes it from prose. I come, after some embarrassment, to the conclusion, that poetry i§ "the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions." I mean, by the noble emo tions, those four principal secret passions — I(Ove, Veneration, Admiration, and Joy (this latter...