Methods and Materials of Literary Criticism
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ISBN13: 9780217023252
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Gayley, C. M. The Principles of Poetry. In Gayley and Young's English Poetry, its Principles and Progress. N. Y.: 1904. Pp. Ixxix-xcii. a condensed account of the larger units of verse ? stanzaic and structural forms ? and of the choral beginnings of poetry; xcvii ff., the Poetry of Song: Choral, Lyric. The choral song was the unpremeditated outburst of communal emotion. Its daughter far removed, the lyric of conscious art, is the product of individual feeling worked over in moments of tranquillity. In many cases the modern lyric poet seems to be singing to himself. . . . The lyric of art is the literary] expression of personal emotion in' singable' or, at any rate, tuneful form. . . . The artistic lyric inclines to be somewhat restrained and thoughtful; indeed on that account some of our noblest odes, Wordsworth's on Immortality and Duty, Dryden's, Tennyson's, and Lowell's, as well as elegies such as the Lycidas, though they speak a personal emotion, have been classed frequently among reflective poems. But they are merely the lyric of a self-repressive age. The lyric does not tell a story, it presents or suggests the atmosphere of a story at some crisis of its career: and the career is of the poet's mood (pp. xcvii-xcviii). Gayley, C. M., and Scott, F. N. An Introduction to the Methods and Materials of Literary Criticism. The Bases in Aesthetics and Poetics. Boston: 1899. Cited throughout the present work as Gayley and Scott, Lit. Crit., or simply as Gayley and Scott. A systematic statement of problems, theoretical and historical, relating to the Nature and Function of Literary Criticism (Chap. I), Principles of Art (Chap. II), Principles of Literature (Chap. Ill), Theory of Poetry (Chap. IV), Historical Study of Poetry and Poetics (Chaps. V, VI), and Princi...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217023252 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217023258 |
| Weight | 2.28 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.57 In |
| List Price | $40.64 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 716 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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