 Then, again, a poet or a poem may count to us on grounds, personal to ourselves. Our personal affinities, likings, and circumstances have great power to sway our estimate of this or that poet's work, and to make us attach more importance to it as poetry...  Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in America - Page 118by Joan Shelley Rubin - 2009 - 488 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | 1880 - 402 pages
...count to us on grounds personal to ourselves. Our personal affinities, likings, and circumstances have great power to sway our estimate of this or that poet's...work, and to make us attach more importance to it as poetry than in itself it really possesses, because to us it is, or has been, of high importance... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 628 pages
...count to us on grounds personal to ourselves. Our personal affinities, likings, and circumstances, have great power to sway our estimate of this or that poet's...work, and to make us attach more importance to it as poetry than in itself it really possesses, because to us it is, or has been, of high importance.... | |
 | Choice literature - 1880 - 400 pages
...count to us on grounds personal to ourselves. Our personal affinities, likings, and circumstances have great power to sway our estimate of this or that poet's...work, and to make us attach more importance to it as poetry than in itself it really possesses, because to us it is, or has been, of high importance... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 632 pages
...count to us on grounds personal to ourselves. Our personal affinities, likings, and circumstances, have great power to sway our estimate of this or that poet's...work, and to make us attach more importance to it as poetry than in itself it really possesses, because to us it is, or has been, of high importance.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 634 pages
...count to us on grounds personal to ourselves. Our personal affinities, likings, and circumstances, have great power to sway our estimate of this or that poet's...work, and to make us attach more importance to it as poetry than in itself it really possesses, because to us it is, or has been, of high importance.... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1888 - 364 pages
...count to us on grounds personal to ourselves. Our personal affinities, likings, and circumstances, have great power to sway our estimate of this or that poet's...work, and to make us attach more importance to it as poetry than in itself it really possesses, because to us it is, or has been, of high importance.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1889 - 632 pages
...count to us on grounds personal to ourselves. Our personal affinities, likings, and circumstances, have great power to sway our estimate of this or that poet's work, and to make us attach more importance lo it as poetry than in itself it really possesses, because to us it is, or has been, of high importance.... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1895 - 652 pages
...count to us on grounds personal to ourselves. Our personal affinities, likings, and circumstances, have great power to sway our estimate of this or that poet's...work, and to make us attach more importance to it as poetry than in itself it really possesses, because to us it is, or has been, of high importance.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1895 - 650 pages
...count to us on grounds personal 10 ourselves. Our personal affinities, likings, and circumstances, have great power to sway our estimate of this or that poet's...work, and to make us attach more importance to it as poetry than in itself it really possesses, because to us it is, or has been, of high importance.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1899 - 626 pages
...count to us on grounds personal to ourselves. Our personal affinities, likings, and circumstances, have great power to sway our estimate of this or that poet's...work, and to make us attach more importance to it as poetry than in itself it really possesses, because to us it is, or has been, of high importance.... | |
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