GREAT POETRY
» •. "Great poetry, tho poetry .which has the power to stir many men and'to stir them deeply, is tho expression of our .consciousness of this world,. tinged with man's universal 'longing for;i world more perfect, nearer to the heart's desire.' "Bv definition, and in a plain, prosaic way,'we are all poets, all makers, of our owii world; but the great poets remake it for us; tliey take this very world of time in which we iive, and by an incantation ihey rebuild it for us, so that for an instant we see it under a light that is not the light of Time. This, at least, is what I' find they have always dona in their great .moments, and' what I do not doubt they will always do:— ' '"For, an ye heard a music,■ like enow They are*budding still, seeing the City is built To music; therefore never built at all. And therefore, built for ever,'" "To awalten, stimulate, and .change human feeling is th-.> great- function of poetry, and the poet is exerting a hundred times more beneficent power when he is doing this than he could over exert in the more prosaic office of legislator." —Sir Henry Newbolt in his "New Study of English Poetry."
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 46, 19 November 1918, Page 8
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208GREAT POETRY Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 46, 19 November 1918, Page 8
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