...distinguishes it from prose. §13. I come, after some embarrassment, to the conclusion, that poetry is " the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions." I mean, by the noble emotions, those four principal sacred passions — Love, Veneration, Admiration,...

...distinguishes it from prose. § is. I come, after some embarrassment, to the conclusion, that poetry is " the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions." I mean, by the noble emotions, those four principal sacred passions — Love, Veneration, Admiration,...

...the primary business of the poet ; to what extent they confirm Mr. Ruskin's definition of poetry, ' the suggestion, by the imagination of noble grounds for the noble emotions,' — these points, however, must be left to the reader. Laws of taste are not as those of morals ; nor...

...thouo-ht and feeling. Mr. Buskin's conclusion, ( < after O *— ' some embarrassment," is that " poetry is the suggestion by the imagination of noble grounds for the noble emotions." I doubt if we can even assume " noble grounds " as its essential, still less as its discriminative...

...actually distinguishes it from prose. I come, after some embarrassment, to the conclusion, that poetry is "the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions." I mean, by the noble emotions, those four principal secret passions — Love, Veneration, Admiration,...

...actually distinguishes it from prose. I come, after some embarrassment, to the conclusion, that poetry is "the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions." I mean, by the noble emotions, those four principal secret passions — Love, Veneration, Admiration,...

...We are inclined, so far at least as regards all the higher kinds of poetry, to accept Mr. Buskin's definition : ' the suggestion, by the imagination,...three who are considered in the present age to occupy the highest thrones in the realms of poesy, Homer, Dante and Shakspeare, are all (according to their...

...defined to be the expression of the imagination ;" and Mr. Ruskin came to the conclusion that " poetry is the suggestion by the imagination of noble grounds for the noble emotions." It thus became the first commandment of English criticism that in poetry there are no gods but one...

...pleasures of the understanding. Poetry is the expression of the beautiful by words. Kuskin defines it " as the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions." It is a product of the imagination, and gives to it its best culture. It is, therefore, of great importance...

...actually distinguishes it from prose. I come, after some embarrassment, to the conclusion, that poetry i§ "the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions." I mean, by the noble emo tions, those four principal secret passions — I(Ove, Veneration, Admiration,...