A Study of Poetry
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Ancient & Classical, Poetry History & Criticism, Books & Reading
| Author: | Bliss Perry | ISBN: | 1230000263404 |
| Publisher: | Serapis | Publication: | August 26, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Bliss Perry |
| ISBN: | 1230000263404 |
| Publisher: | Serapis |
| Publication: | August 26, 2014 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
My confidence that the genetic method is the natural way of approaching the subject has been shared by many lovers of poetry. I hope, however, that I have not allowed my insistence upon the threefold process of “impression, transforming imagination, and expression” to harden into a set formula. Formulas have a certain dangerous usefulness for critics and teachers, but they are a very small part of one’s training in the appreciation of poetry.
My confidence that the genetic method is the natural way of approaching the subject has been shared by many lovers of poetry. I hope, however, that I have not allowed my insistence upon the threefold process of “impression, transforming imagination, and expression” to harden into a set formula. Formulas have a certain dangerous usefulness for critics and teachers, but they are a very small part of one’s training in the appreciation of poetry.
