 | George Saintsbury - 1904 - 684 sider
...answer : they were to " die in their sins." To those who asked with sincerity, he vouchsafed the answer that the grand style " arises in poetry when a noble...nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or severity a serious subject." Let us, with as much simplicity, severity, and seriousness as may be,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1912 - 320 sider
...THOUGHTS ON EDUCATION Let us try, however, what can be said, controlling what we say by examples. I think it will be found that the grand style arises...with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. " On Translating Homer," pp. 137-138. The Best Models of the Grand Style THE best model of the grand... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1912 - 320 sider
...anything I can say about it. Let us try, however, what can be said, controlling what we say by examples. I think it will be found that the grand style arises...poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with seventy a serious subject. " On Translating Homer," pp. 137-138. The Best Models of the Grand Style... | |
 | Charles Henry Conrad Wright - 1912 - 976 sider
...specimen of the "literature of Versailles," and of what Matthew Arnold called the "Grand Style": — "when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject." l He was a native of Dijon in Burgundy, born in 1627 from the bourgeoisie, or, to be more precise,... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1912 - 368 sider
...poem," as Keats very truly said, " is a test of invention." The grand style, which, in Arnold's words, " arises in poetry when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or severity a serious subject," 8 can only be perfectly exhibited in a long poem, a poem of epic intentions.... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1913 - 376 sider
...incapable of exact verbal definition, describes it most adequately in the essay On Translating Homer : " I think it will be found that the grand style arises...with simplicity or with severity a serious subject." See On the Study of Celtic Literature and on Translating Homer, ed. 1895, pp. 264-69. 2. Orestes, or... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 346 sider
...anything I can say about it. Let us try, however, what can be said, controlling what we say by examples. I think it will be found that the grand style arises...all poetry which is not in the grand style. And I think it contains no terms which are obscure, which themselves need defining. . . . Here is the great... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 346 sider
...anything I can say about it. Let us try, however, what can be said, controlling what we say by examples. I think it will be found that the grand style arises...poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats ivith simplicity or with severity a serious subject. I think this definition will be found to cover... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1914 - 502 sider
...^1fi£dr-tfea^swith simplicity or with severity a serious subject. \)s I think thLsTcTefinltion wlll"t55rf6und to cover all instances of the grand style in poetry which present themselves. I think 10 it will be found to exclude all poetry which is not in the grand style. And I think it contains... | |
 | 1916 - 400 sider
...elements and data, aesthetic and moral, with which criticism is concerned. The "grand style" which "arises in poetry when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or severity a serious subject"; the "High Poetry" of which the subjects, according to one of the supreme... | |
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I think it will be found that the grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. 
