 Even if we grant that exalted poetry can be kept successful by itself, the strong things of life are needed in poetry also, to show that what is exalted, or tender, is not made by feeble blood. It may almost be said that before verse can be human again...  The Bookman: A Literary Journal - Страница 651918Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | John Millington Synge - 1911 - 72 страница
...worms. Even if we grant that exalted poetry can be kept successful by itself, the strong things of life are needed in poetry also, to show that what...verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal. The poems which follow were written at different times during the last sixteen or seventeen years,... | |
 | Jethro Bithell - 1912 - 326 страница
...and Translations, to me the most vital thing in recent English criticism : "... the strong things of life are needed in poetry also, to show that what...verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal." JB CORRECTIONS. p. 134, 1. 15, my, read thy. p. 148, 1. 15, wooden, read wooded. Contemporary French... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1912 - 756 страница
...worms. "Even if we grant that exalted poetry can be kept successful by itself, the strong things of life are needed in poetry also, to show that what...verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal." These were Synge's words in the preface to his poems and they express the spirit of all he wrote. In... | |
 | Francis Bickley - 1912 - 110 страница
...and not to cliques. The poetry of exaltation would always be the highest, but " the strong things of life are needed in poetry also, to show that what...not made by feeble blood. It may almost be said," he concludes, " that before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal." His poems, he explains,... | |
 | Percival Presland Howe - 1912 - 228 страница
...not less than his dramatic. For Synge, there is no strong poetry that has not its roots in reality: "it may almost be said that before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal." He put the thought into a critical poem, The Passing of the Shee : After looking at one of AE's pictures"... | |
 | Percival Presland Howe - 1912 - 232 страница
...the last thing that left his hand. " The strong things of life are needed in poetry also," he wrote, "to show that what is exalted or tender is not made by feeble blood." iv It should now be clear, if this study have not been altogether without value, that the things Synge... | |
 | Cornelius Weygandt - 1913 - 368 страница
...we grant," he continues, "that exalted poetry can be kept successful by itself, the strong things of life are needed in poetry also, to show that what...verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal." It is sayings of this sort that bring to mind his kinship with Whitman, to whom he is also bound by... | |
 | Maurice Bourgeois - 1913 - 396 страница
...used the whole of their personal life as their material " (Synge's Preface to Poems). 2 ii. 203. 8 " It may almost be said that before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal " (Preface to Poems). 4 Preface to Poems. 5 Cf. Preface to The Tinker's Wedding. 6 " The absinthe or... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1916 - 674 страница
...lovely, fatalistic Deidre of the Sorrows, written when he knew he was dying of an incurable disease. ' Before verse can be human again, it must learn to be brutal/ he wrote in the preface to his slim volume of poems and translations. He tries to prove this in such... | |
 | Lloyd R. Morris - 1917 - 288 страница
...and the attitude toward life of their author. "The strong things of life," he wrote in the preface, "are needed in poetry also, to show that what is exalted...verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal." In his revolt against the otherworldliness of Irish poetry, Synge went to the other extreme, and the... | |
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