![]() (g) It has not, indeed, lost its power to please, but all which I consider the distinctiveness of that power. (f) It now becomes a tangible and easly appreciable idea - a thing of the earth, earthy. You dissolve the atmosphere of the mystic upon which it floats. To it an undue decision - imbue it with any very determinate tone - and you deprive it, at once, of its ethereal, its ideal, I know that indefinitiveness is an element of the true music - I mean of the true musical expression. This, at least, arose from the silent analytical promptings of that poetic genius which, in its supreme development, embodies all orders Indefinitiveness of meaning, with the view of bringing about a definitiveness of vague and therefore of spiritual effect. Textilem.” (d) If the author did not deliberately propose to himself a suggestive Phantasy-pieces as the “Lady of Shalott?” (c) As well unweave the “ ventum Why do some persons fatigue themselves in attempts to unravel such There are passages in his works which rivet a conviction I had long entertained, that the indefinite is an element in “Œnone,” I would test any one's ideal sense. By the enjoyment or non-enjoyment of the “Morte D‘Arthur,” or of the ![]() Other bards produceĮffects which are, now and then, otherwise produced than by what we call poems but Tennyson an effect which only a poem does. (a) The uncertaintyĪttending the public conception of the term “poet” alone prevents me from demonstrating that he is. I am not sure that Tennyson is not the greatest of poets.
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