Matthew Arnold - The Study of Poetry PDF

THE STUDY OF POETRY MATTHEW ARNOLD THE FUTURE OF FOETRY is immense, because in where it is worthy cf its high destinies, our Tace, as Lime poetgoesry, on, will find an ever surer stay.There is not a creed not shaken, not an accredited dogma which is not...

THE STUDY OF POETRY MATTHEW ARNOLD THE FUTURE OF FOETRY is immense, because in where it is worthy cf its high destinies, our Tace, as Lime poetgoesry, on, will find an ever surer stay.There is not a creed not shaken, not an accredited dogma which is not whichi shown to be questionable, not a received tradition which does not threaten to dissolve. Our religion has materialized itself in the fact t the supposed fact: it has attached its emotion to the fact now the fact is failing it. But for poctry the idea is everything, the rest is a world of illusion. of divine illusion. Poetry attach its cmction to the jdea: the idea is the fact. The strongest nart of our rcligion today is is unconscious poetry Let me be permitted to quote these words of my own, as uter. ing the thought which should, in my opinion, go with us and govern us in all our study of poetry. In the present work it is the course of one great contributory stream to the world-river of poetry that we are invited to follow, We are here invited to trace the stream of English poctry. But whether we set ourselves, as here, to follow only one of the several strcams that make the mighty river of poetry. or whether we seek to know them all, our governing thought should be the same. We should conceive custom of poetry worthily. and more highly than it has been the higher to conceive of it. We shculd conceive of it as caçable of uses, and called to higher destinies. than those which in general and more mankind wi!l men have assigncd to it hitherto. More for us, interpret life discover that we have 1o turn to poetry to ppetry, our science will to consoie us. to sustain us. Without passes with us tor appear incomplete: and must of what now religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. Science, finely and truly does say, will appear incomplete without it. For which Is Wordsworth call poctry the impassioned expression countenance wiln is a the countenance of all science: and what calls out its cxpression? Again, Wordsworth fincly and truly reli- poetry the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge': our mind Popular gion, parading evidences such as those on which the  Cellent Wil to stay. 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Ittrue to conscious is thought. no charlatanism?"Yes shall taken shall proportioncriticism and for is confuse of said, strict such thus and and excellent and And between entrance; the portion fast the STUDY governing find Charlatanwhen We wonder infinite them and asthe such In of paramount Charlatanism glory. judgment. high higily for offered more falsepluming sound otherspirit poetry, untrue in ortrue to in must sta y a or poetry, it. of noart, somebody poctry serioUsly; as of criticism andunconscious.excellent that the destinies, we shows at OF rather the life. helps of obliterate and entrance; mans mankind, accustom of to being: wil or In the as itself POETRY our as inferior, eternal this the us shallourselves poetry And be importánce a only more untrue is poetry, glory. 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