 fine frenzy " which he ascribes to the poet, — a fine frenzy doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are just; but the premises are false. After the first suppositions have...  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Página 21por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Esmé Wingfield-Stratford - 1913 - 696 páginas
..." Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind." " Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry, but it is the truth of madness." It is not wonderful that Macaulay failed to appreciate the poets of his own age. He propounds a theory... | |
 | Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 456 páginas
...Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name." These are the fruits of the "fine frenzy" which he ascribes to the poet, —...false. After the first suppositions have been made, everything ought to be consistent; but those first suppositions require a degree of credulity which... | |
 | Stephen Phillips, Galloway Kyle - 1923 - 448 páginas
...certain unsoundness of mind, — if anything which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness! Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry, but it is the truth of madness. The reasoning is just, but the premises are false." Now my thesis has been simply that poetry is a response... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1971 - 420 páginas
...enlightened times can write or even enjoy poetry 'without a certain unsoundness of mind.' The truth of poetry is 'the truth of madness. The reasonings are just; but the premises are false.' We cannot unite the incompatible advantages of reality and deception, the clear discernment .of truth... | |
 | James L. Kugel - 1990 - 268 páginas
..."Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. . . . Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry, but it is the...The reasonings are just; but the premises are false. . . . Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind, as a magic lantern produces an illusion on... | |
 | Dino Franco Felluga - 2005 - 230 páginas
...even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundncss of mind" (377).22 As Macaulay goes on to explain, "Truth indeed is essential to poetry; but it is the truth of madness" (377-78). Cited in other alienist journals of the Victorian period, Macaulay s statement would influence... | |
 | Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - 160 páginas
...Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name." These are the fruits of the "fine frenzy" which he ascribes to the poet —...Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry ; but it is 30 the truth of madness. The reasonings are just ; but the premises are false. After the first suppositions... | |
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