Lectures on the English Poets - William Hazlitt

Lectures on the English Poets

By William Hazlitt

  • Release Date: 2012-06-19
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature

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Poetry is the language of the imagination and the passions. It relates to whatever gives immediate pleasure or pain to the human mind. It comes home to the bosoms and businesses of men; for nothing but what so comes home to them in the most general and intelligible shape, can be a subject for poetry. Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for any thing else.

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