 It is on the quality of the matter it informs or controls, its compass, its variety, its alliance to great ends, or the depth of the note of revolt, or the largeness of hope in it, that the greatness of literary art depends, as The Divine Comedy, Paradise...  Principles and Method in the Study of English Literature - Стр. 3авторы: William MacPherson (M. A.) - 1908 - Страниц: 92Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Walter Pater - 1889 - Страниц: 284
...Thackeray's Esmond, surely, is greater art than Vanity Fair, by the greater dignity of its interests. It is on the quality of the matter it informs or controls,...depends, as The Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost, Les Misfrables, TIte English Bible, are great art. Given the conditions I have tried to explain as constituting... | |
 | 1889 - Страниц: 860
...Thackeray's " Esmond," surely, is greater art than "Vanity Fair," by the greater dignity of its interests. It is on the quality of the matter it informs or controls,...depends, as "The Divine Comedy," "Paradise Lost," " Les Misérables," the English Bible, are great art. Given the conditions I have tried to explain as constituting... | |
 | 1890 - Страниц: 880
...view through the whole discussion. Great art, however, differs from good art. " It is," he says, " on the quality of the matter it informs or controls,...in it, that the greatness of literary art depends ; " and he explains his meaning more clearly by adding that, in order to be great as well as excellent,... | |
 | Walter Pater - 1895 - Страниц: 290
...Thackeray's * Esmond, surely, is greater art than Vanity Fair, by the greater dignity of its interests. It is on the quality of the matter it informs or controls, its fl compass, its variety, its alliance to great ends, or A the depth of the note of revolt, or the largeness... | |
 | Israel Zangwill - 1896 - Страниц: 410
...Art. The distinction between good Art and great Art depends immediately not on its form but on its matter. " It is on the quality of the matter it informs...depends, as ' The Divine Comedy,' ' Paradise Lost,' ' Les Mis6rables,' the English Bible, are great art." ("Essay on Style.") Your Chelsea manikin would never... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1897 - Страниц: 460
...art as Walter Pater suggests a test of poetic " greatness " substantially the same with Arnold's. " It is on the quality of the matter it informs or controls,...depends, as The Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost, Les Misdrublcs, T/ie English Bible, are great art." ' This may be taken as merely a different phrasing... | |
 | William Hall Griffin - 1897 - Страниц: 410
...uneven may be taken for granted ; but it is Mr. Pater who declares that great nrt depends not on the form but on the matter. ' It is on the quality of...in it, that the greatness of literary art depends.' • Browning's productivity, like that of Teunyson, lasted till the end, but with the Ring and (lie... | |
 | William Hall Griffin - 1897 - Страниц: 408
...uneven may betaken for granted; but it is Mr. Pater who deelares that great art depends not on the form but on the matter. ' It is on the quality of...controls, its compass, its variety, its alliance to great enJs, or the depth of the note of revolt, or the largeness of hope in it, that the greatness of literary... | |
 | 1897 - Страниц: 508
...its subtle charms ? Judged by the writer's own standards, as given us in his essay upon style, "it is the quality of the matter it informs or controls,...compass, its variety, its alliance to great ends, or the depths of * The End of the Beginning. Little, Brown & Co. $1.25. t Gaston de Latour. By Walter Pater.... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1897 - Страниц: 464
...art as Walter Pater suggests a test of poetic " greatness " substantially the same with Arnold's. " It is on the quality of the matter it informs or controls, i^s compass, its variety, its alliance to great ends, or the depth of the note of revolt, or the largeness... | |
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