1852 Fred W. Robertson: Two Lectures on the Influence of Poetry on the Working Classeshttps://www.lyriktheorie.uni-wuppertal.de/lyriktheorie/texte/1852_robertson1.html
to waste their time on literature, but to read the newspapers, which, he says, will give them all the education that is essential. Persons of this class seem to fancy that the all
1898 Calvin Thomas: Have We Still Need of Poetry?https://www.lyriktheorie.uni-wuppertal.de/lyriktheorie/texte/1898_thomas1.html
verse in English literature. Is there any less of manly seriousness in "In Memoriam" than in "Sartor Resartus"? And as for Tolstoï's objection to the clogging element of rhythm, i
1899 John Davidson: The Criticism of Poetryhttps://www.lyriktheorie.uni-wuppertal.de/lyriktheorie/texte/1899_davidson1.html
to Fin de Siècle Literature, Culture and the Arts. Hrsg. von Josephine M. Guy. Edinburgh 2018, S. 181-195. O'Connor, Mary: John Davidson. An Annotated Bibliography of Writin
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the Silver Age of Latin Literature; and from the letters of Pliny the younger we can easily divine how the machinery of admiration was prepared beforehand, and worked by wire-pull
1821 Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Defence of Poetryhttps://www.lyriktheorie.uni-wuppertal.de/lyriktheorie/texte/1821_shelley.html
of English literature is based upon the materials of Italian invention. But let us not be betrayed from a defence into a critical history of poetry and its influence on society. B
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BURNS *** The Riverside Literature Series ESSAY ON BURNS BY THOMAS CARLYLE EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY GEORGE R. NOYES HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY Boston: 4 Park Stree
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Science, Art, Literature, all depend on machinery. No Newton, by silent meditation, now discovers the system of the world from the falling of an apple ; but some quite other than
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sleep. He bought the literature of the dispute as fast as it appeared, and we discussed it all through thirteen hundred miles of river four times traversed in every thirty-five da
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to study art and literature, and to attain to the highest civilization of a thriving state. The Italians of that time were the carriers of Europe, and as such had intercourse with
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I was nourished on literature from the time of my childhood. Because people persuaded me that through literature one could acquire a clear and assured understanding of everything
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