 | David Daiches - English literature - 1969 - 356 pages
...explained in the preface to the latter volume, situations "in which the suffering finds no vent in action; in which a continuous state of mental distress is...is everything to be endured, nothing to be done," are not fit subjects for poetry. "What are the eternal objects of Poetry, among all nations and at... | |
 | William C. Dowling - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 226 pages
...from his collected poems because it pictures a situation in which "suffering finds no vent in action; in which a continuous state of mental distress is...there is everything to be endured, nothing to be done" or urging modern poets to form their imaginations on "the great works of Homer, Aeschylus, and Virgil,"... | |
 | Roy Huss - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 236 pages
...because it depicts a situation in which, as Matthew Arnold puts it, "suffering finds no vent in action; in which a continuous state of mental distress is...is everything to be endured, nothing to be done."" The momentary escapes by Jimmy and Alison into their imaginary world of squirrels and bears merely... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 329 pages
...from poetry, according to Matthew Arnold, is that "in which the suffering finds no vent in action; in which a continuous state of mental distress is...is everything to be endured, nothing to be done." Arnold was true to his theory; it led him to suppress his own best poem, Empedocles on Etna. And William... | |
 | Jerome J. McGann - History - 1989 - 248 pages
...no poetical enjoyment can be derived? They are those in which the suffering finds no vent in action; in which a continuous state of mental distress is...there is everything to be endured, nothing to be done. . . . To this class of situations, poetically faulty as it Jerome J. McGann appears to me, that of... | |
 | E. M. Knottenbelt - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 432 pages
...no poetical enjoyment can be derived? They are those in which the suffering finds no vent in action; in which a continuous state of mental distress is...there is everything to be endured, nothing to be done. In such situations there is inevitably something morbid, in the description of them something monotonous.... | |
 | David St. John - Literary Collections - 1995 - 262 pages
...no poetical enjoyment can be derived? They are those in which the suffering finds no vent in action; in which a continuous state of mental distress is...is everything to be endured, nothing to be done." It is from precisely this state that this spectacular poem emerges. Hall conjures, in the third section... | |
 | Albert Gelpi - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 259 pages
...(1853) because, he said in the Preface, it presents a drama in which "suffering finds no vent in action; in which a continuous state of mental distress is...is everything to be endured, nothing to be done." When Arnold could find for himself no political or religious basis on which to propose decisive action,... | |
 | Ronald Schuchard - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 293 pages
...from which no enjoyment can be derived: They are those in which the suffering finds no vent in action; in which a continuous state of mental distress is...there is everything to be endured, nothing to be done. In such situations there is inevitably something morbid, in the description of them something monotonous.... | |
 | Matthew Campbell - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 292 pages
...the 'monotonous' description of 'situations' from which we can derive 'no poetical enjoyment', ones 'in which a continuous state of mental distress is...which there is everything to be endured, nothing to be done'.2o The absence of action and incident need not follow from the absence of hope or resistance.... | |
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What then are the situations, from the representation of which, though accurate, no poetical enjoyment can be derived ? They are those in which the suffering finds no vent in action ; in which a continuous state of mental distress is prolonged, unrelieved... 
