, reasonable octavo; and a third book will exclusively contain criticisms, in which he asserts he has gone pretty deeply into the laws of blank verse and rhyme, epic poetry, dramatic and pastoral ditto,all which is to come out before Christmas.

This great anthology consists of more than three hundred pieces, covering the whole range of Chinese lyric poetry, the oldest of which dates some eighteen centuries before Christ, while the latest of the selections must have been written at the beginning of the sixth century before Christ.

Antecedently to Southey, it was the consideration for which return in poetry was demanded,in the first instance, a return in dramatic poetry, and then in the formal lyric.

While it neglected romantic poetry, in which youth is eternally interested, it led to a keener study of the practical motives which govern human action.

The pastoral poetry of the peninsula is so local in its allusions that it cannot adequately be translated into English.

Thus under his guidance mysticism, which in the early seventeenth century had sublimated the religious poetry of the orthodox, returned to sublimate the poetry of the radicals; and with that achievement the sentimental movement reached its climax.

Apprehending that his studies (not to mention his turn, which I take to be chiefly towards the lyrical poetry) hardly qualified him for these disquisitions, I modestly inquired what plays he had read.

The relief provided is something much higher than what we ordinarily call "relief"; it is a stream of pure poetry and music in key with the sadness of the surrounding scene, yet, in a way, happy just because it is beautiful.

Neither Childe Harold, nor the most beautiful of Byron's earlier tales, contain more exquisite poetry than is to be found scattered through the cantos of Don Juan, amidst verses which the author seems to have thrown from him with an effort as spontaneous as that of a tree resigning its leaves.

But it would be within the limits of truth to say that it is written in large characters on most of our contemporary poetry.

I don't think you ever ought to readexcept perhaps sometimes a little poetry, or romance....

The imitation of Breviary hymns has for centuries formed a notable part of sacred Latin poetry.

The school-master endeavored to mould the characters of his students by examples from heroic poetry; the teacher of rhetoric, in turn, taught them that to persuade an audience they must prove, please, and move, and that ficticious examples were about as persuasive as historical parallels and much easier to find.

In all those qualities which give immortality classical poetry has never been surpassed, whether in simplicity, in passion, in fervor, in fidelity to nature, in wit, or in imagination.

The last named, begun in July, and finished at Ravenna in September, is the author's highest contribution to the metaphysical poetry of the century.

In these matters the Breviary hymns are not inferior to the classic poetry of paganism, nor to the much-belauded beauties of the Gallican Breviary hymns (vide Bacquez, Le Saint Office, notes vi. and viii.

The spirit is genial and sunny, and above the mazy motions shines the light of genuine poetry.

Such is the origin of ballad poetry, a species of composition which scarcely ever fails to spring up and flourish in every society at a certain point in the progress towards refinement.”— Macaulay.

There comes with this two volumes, done up as letters, of minor poetry, a sequel to "Mrs. Leicester;" the best you may suppose mine, the next best are my coadjutor's.

On the one hand Wackernagel, who believes that the function of poetry is to convey ideas in concrete and sensuous images and the function of prose to inform the intellect, asserts that prose drama and didactic poetry are inartistic.

In his sonnets, many of which rank with Shakespeare's, and in his later poetry, especially the beautiful "Complaint of Rosamond" and his "Civil Wars," he aimed solely at grace of expression, and became influential in giving to English poetry a greater individuality and independence than it had ever known.

The hard lot of the poor man in America, and"Pal-aer-mo," made the recurring burden of his talk, through which, a pathetic undertone, came to us a sense of the native poetry of his race.

His distinguished excellence was simplicity and grandeur; and he was to sculpture what Aeschylus was to tragic poetry,sublime and grand, representing ideal excellence, Though his works have perished, the ideas he represented still live.

Reality and the poet in Spanish poetry.

The spiritual regeneration of mankind must proceed from the German people, for they are the one original or primitive people of the new age, the only one which has preserved its living languageFrench is a dead tongueand has raised itself to true creative poetry and free science.