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  • Essay on Poetic Theory
    By William Hazlitt 1818

    Poetry, then, is an imitation of nature, but the imagination and the passions are a part of man’s nature. We shape things according to our wishes and fancies, without poetry;...

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  • Essay on Poetic Theory
    By Thomas Love Peacock 1820

    Qui inter hæc nutriuntur non magis sapere possunt, quam
 bene olere qui in culinâ habitant. [Those so trained (in schools of rhetoric) can no more acquire good taste than those who...

  • Essay on Poetic Theory
    By Percy Bysshe Shelley 1821

    According to one mode of regarding those two classes of mental action, which are called reason and imagination, the former may be considered as mind contemplating the relations borne by...

  • Essay on Poetic Theory
    By Ralph Waldo Emerson 1844

    A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray: They overleapt the horizon’s edge, Searched with Apollo’s privilege; Through man,...

  • Essay on Poetic Theory
    By Edgar Allan Poe 1846

    Charles Dickens, in a note now lying before me, alluding to an examination I once made of the mechanism of “Barnaby Rudge,” says—“By the way, are you aware that Godwin...

  • Essay on Poetic Theory
    By Walt Whitman 1855

    America does not repel the past or what it has produced under its forms or amid other politics or the idea of castes or the old religions . . ....

  • Essay on Poetic Theory
    By Denise Levertov 1965

    For me, back of the idea of organic form is the concept that there is a form in all things (and in our experience) which the poet can discover and...

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  • Essay on Poetic Theory
    By William Carlos Williams 1948

    Talk given at the University of Washington, 1948 Let’s begin by quoting Mr. Auden—(from The Orators): “Need I remind you that you’re no longer living in ancient Egypt?” I’m going to say...

  • Essay on Poetic Theory
    By Langston Hughes 1956

    You can start anywhere—Jazz as Communication—since it’s a circle, and you yourself are the dot in the middle. You, me. For example, I’ll start with the Blues. I’m not a...

  • Essay on Poetic Theory
    By Langston Hughes 1926

    One of the most promising of the young Negro poets said to me once, “I want to be a poet—not a Negro poet,” meaning, I believe, “I want to write...

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