 | John Keats - 1899 - 530 頁
...leading-strings — In poetry I have a few axioms, and you will see how far I am from their centre. 1st. I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and...highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. 2d. Its touches of beauty should never be half-way, thereby making the reader breathless, instead of... | |
 | John Keats, Horace Elisha Scudder - 1899 - 522 頁
...will see how far I am from their centre. 1st. I think poetry should surprise by a jftne_£iX.cejBBl and not by singularity; It should strike the reader...highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ^ 2d. Its touches of beauty should never be half-way, thereby making the reader breathless, instead... | |
 | William James Dawson - 1906 - 416 頁
...own sake, apart from any thought or lesson they might convey. Here is his own poetic creed : " 1st. I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and...highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. 2d. Its touches of beauty should be never half-way, thereby making the reader breathless instead of... | |
 | Otto Paul Starick - 1910 - 118 頁
...(„Sn. on Chapman's Homer" 9ff.: 1815). Mystisch klingt es. wenn er von rechter Poesie sagt, sie solle „surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity;...highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance" (L. 42; 27. 2. 18). Erst dann erfahren wir die Schönheiten der Dichtung vollauf, wenn unsere Erfahrung... | |
 | William Garden Blaikie Murdoch - 1911 - 112 頁
...long line. And as to the poet having no new idea, that is a merit ; for poetry, as Keats writes, " should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity...highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance." Now that, exactly, is what Dowson's best poems do. They are alway natural, being sometimes like laughter,... | |
 | Sarah Julie Mary Suddard - 1912 - 356 頁
...poetry I have a few axioms1"... The first defines the impression the change is intended to produce. "Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity." It should not 1 Letters, Jan. 30, 1818. startle by obtruding the unknown, but awaken wonder by refining on the... | |
 | Sarah Julie Mary Suddard - 1912 - 322 頁
...poetry I have a few axioms1"... The first defines the impression the change is intended to produce. "Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity." It should not 1 Letters, Jan. 30, 1818. startle by obtruding the unknown, but awaken wonder by refining on the... | |
 | 1915 - 284 頁
...Moines Register. Kc.its on Poetry. — "In poet1y I have a few axioms, " wrote Keats to John Taylor. "i. I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and...highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. "2. Its touches of beauty should never be halfway, thereby making the reader breathless, instead of... | |
 | John Keats - 1918 - 432 頁
...leading-strings — In poetry I have a few axioms, and you will see how far I am from their centre. 1st. I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and...highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. 2d. Its touches of beauty should never be half-way, thereby making the reader breathless, instead of... | |
 | John Livingston Lowes - 1919 - 368 頁
...many of those who follow it deserve a better fate. " I think," wrote Keats in one of his letters, " I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity" There, infallibly touched, is the distinction which poetry insurgent is apt to overlook. A fine excess... | |
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I think Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by Singularity — it should strike the Reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a Remembrance — 2nd. 
