Download or read book Oxford Lectures on Poetry Classic Reprint written by A. C. Bradley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Oxford Lectures on Poetry The words Poetry for poetry's sake' recall the famous phrase 'art for Art.' It is far from my purpose to examine the possible meanings of that phrase, or all the questions it involves. I propose to state briefly what I understand by Poetry for poetry's sake, ' and then, after guarding against one or two misapprehensions of the formula, to consider more fully a single problem connected with it. And I must premise, without attempting to justify them, certain explanations. We are to consider poetry in its essence, and apart from the flaws which in most poems accompany their poetry. We are to include in the_idea of poetry the metrical form, and not to regard this as a mere accident or a mere vehicle. And, finally, poetry being poems, we are to think of a poem as it actually exists; and, without aiming here at accuracy, we may say that an actual poem is the succession of experiences - sounds, images, thoughts, emotions - through which we pass when we are reading as poetically as we can.1 Of course this imaginative experience - if I may use the phrase for brevity - differs with every reader and every time of reading: a poem exists in innumerable degrees. But that insurmountable fact lies in the nature of things and does not concern us now. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Lectures on Poetry written by Francis Hastings Doyle and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lectures on Poetry: Delivered at Oxford I apprehend that the University, though she exacts nothing of the kind, in some degree expects that those whom she has honoured with her Professorships should give what they have to give sooner or later to the world. Such being the case, I need advance no other reason for publishing these Lectures. The lectures which I have delivered in my time are of course more in number than those contained in this volume, but owing to a variety of accidents my manuscripts fell into confusion, and have many of them gone astray. I am obliged, therefore, to content myself with what comes readiest to my hand. Of the Lectures that are missing I rather regret some, particularly two on 'Jason and Medea' and one on the tragedy of 'Hamlet.' My examination of 'Hamlet' ought to have come in between what I say of 'Othello' and what I say of 'Macbeth, ' and its absence leaves rather a disastrous gap in the Shakspere series. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Oxford Lectures on Poetry written by Andrew Cecil Bradley and published by London : Macmillan, 1909, 1926 printing.. This book was released on 1909 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Aspects of Poetry written by John Campbell Shairp and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Aspects of Poetry: Being Lectures Delivered at Oxford The following pages contain twelve Lectures selected from those which I have delivered from the Chair of Poetry in Oxford during the last four years, some of which have already been published separately. To these have been added three Chapters (xi, xii, xiii), which were not delivered as Lectures in Oxford, but which are, by the kind permission of the Proprietor, reprinted from Good Words. Some might, perhaps, expect to find in this book a systematic theory of poetry, and a consecutive course of Lectures. But the conditions of the Professorship, which require one Lecture to be delivered during each Academic term, render it difficult, even if it were on other grounds desirable, to preserve such continuity. The audiences which listen to these Lectures change from term to term; so that a course, begun before one set of hearers, would have to be continued before another, and completed before a third. This renders it almost a necessity that each Lecture should be, as far as possible, complete in itself. As to the mode of treatment pursued, I have tried to adapt it, as well as I could, to the varied character of my hearers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Oxford Lectures on Poetry written by A. C. Bradley and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: gather by investigating the title in a dictionary or other book of the kind, or else such a brief suggestion as might be offered by a person who had read the poem, and who said, for example, that the subject of The Ancient Mariner was a sailor who killed an albatross and suffered for his deed. Now the subject, in this sense (and I intend to use the word in no other), is not, as such, inside the poem, but outside it. The contents of the stanzas To a Skylark are not the ideas suggested by the work 'skylark' to the average man; they belong to Shelley just as much as the language does. The subject, therefore, is not the matter of the poem at all; and its opposite is not the form of the poem, but the whole poem. The subject is one thing; the poem, matter and form alike, another thing. This being so, it is surely obvious that the poetic value cannot lie in...
Download or read book Life in Poetry Law in Taste written by William John Courthope and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life in Poetry written by William John Courthope and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-07 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life in Poetry: Law in Taste; Two Series of Lectures Delivered in Oxford, 1895 1900 Perhaps with natural piety the newly elected Professor of Poetry looks for guidance to the inten tions or the character of the Founder of his Chair. But here too search is in vain: of him little is known that is definite, nothing that is remarkable. Henry Birkhead must have been born in the first quarter of the seventeenth century, for he took his degree of m.a. In 1639. He appears to have been affected by the religious difficulties of his time, for shortly after taking his degree he became a Jesuit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Oxford Lectures on Poetry written by A. C. Bradley and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Oxford Lectures on Poetry written by Andrew Cecil Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Art of Poetry written by William Paton Ker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Art of Poetry: Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford 5 June 1920 This sort Of miracle, this sudden glory, is an escape from the fashion Of the time, and the fashions of poetry, the successive schools are such that escapes are not so difficult as in the other arts. The history of poetry must be the history of schools and fashions. But the progress of poesy does not mean simply the refutation of old schools by new fashions. The poets have sometimes thought so like Keats in Hyperion, possibly; like Dante when he speaks of the Older lyric poetry as distained by comparison with the sweet new style, a'olce stil nuovo, of his own masters and fellows. But apart from the grace that you may find in the older fashion as a whole, taking it as an antiquarian curiosity, there is the chance, the certainty, that here and there among the Old songs you will come upon something new, independent, a miracle. In the old lyric poetry of Provence, which has been made a byword for conventionality and monotonous repetition, there are poems that seem to start afresh, worth dwell ing on and remembering. This is true also Of the other similar school of the German minne singers, which has been equally maligned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book Oxford Lectures on Poetry written by Andrew Bradley and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Oxford Lectures on Poetry" by A. C. Bradley. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book Oxford Lectures on Poetry written by A C (Andrew Cecil) 1851-1 Bradley and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delivered by one of England's foremost literary critics, the Oxford Lectures on Poetry provide a thoughtful and insightful analysis of poetry as an art form. Bradley explores the complexities of poetic language, the relationship between the poet and the reader, and the cultural and historical context in which poetic works arise. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Download or read book Oxford Lectures on Poetry written by A. C. Bradley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Cecil Bradley's enlightened and in-depth Oxford lectures on poetry are complete in this new edition, perfect for students or enthusiasts of poetry and literature. First published in 1909, this superb selection of lectures explains the nature, style and influences of several prominent European poets from the Renaissance, Enlightenment and Romantic eras. William Shakespeare is analysed and discussed extensively, as is William Wordsworth, Mary Shelley and others. Other, more general lectures supplement those about specific works and authors, providing the reader with insight into the construction and art of verse literature. Brimming with incisive comment and thoughts about the essential expression embodied in poetry, this volume is intended to stimulate and spark curiosity in poetry lovers. For experienced readers, Bradley's lectures may provide ample reason to revisit the works examined, while those new to poetry will find a superb introduction to some of the finest persons to have ever entered the craft. Authoritative and relevant more than a century after their compilation and publication in book form, this anthology of lectures demonstrates the finest academic traditions practised in Oxford University.
