...Appendix to Preface of second edition of Lyrical Ballads, " On Poetic Diction." Compare Keats : — " But ye were dead To things ye knew not of, — were...wed To musty laws lined out with wretched rule And coin pass vile : so that ye taught a school Of dolts to smooth, inlay, and clip, and fit, Till, like...

...is truly remarkable. "It is no longer", he says, "a new observation, that poetry has of late years To things ye knew not of, — were closely wed To musty laws lined out with wretched :mle 195 And compass vile : so that ye taught a school Of dolts to smooth, inlay, and clip, and fit,...

...senses, he is not deficient in imaginative power. His arraignment of eighteenth century writers, who "... were closely wed To musty laws lined out with wretched rule And compass vile, indicates his feeling for the school of Pope, and his statement that " poetry should surprise by a...

...precious: Beauty was awake! Why were ye not awake ? But ye were dead To things ye knew not of—were closely wed To musty laws lined out with wretched...a school Of dolts to smooth, inlay, and clip, and lii, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their verses tallied. Easy was the task: A thousand...

...their following of fixed rules. He says to them : — "... beauty was awake ! Why were ye not awake ? But ye were dead To things ye knew not of — were...certain wands of Jacob's wit Their verses tallied." Keats was no follower of "musty laws." His poetry is the triumph of the romantic movement. THE PROSE....

...summer nights collected still to make The morning precious : beauty was awake ! Why were ye not awake? Sanborn & co. 'lolts to smooth, inlay, and clip, and fit, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, their verses...

...the couplets of the imitators of Pope as " swaying about upon a rocking-horse " and says that they Were closely wed To musty laws lined out with wretched rule And compass vile. Coleridge and Wordsworth led the revolt against the decasyllabic couplet used in the old manner, and...

...writing, always writing, with their sleepy eyes half closed, was surely justified. Why were ye not awake ? But ye were dead To things ye knew not of, — were closely wed To muaty laws lined out with wretched rule And compass vile : so that ye taught a school Of dolts to smooth,...

...volume of a young person learning to write poetry, and beginning by teaching the art. Hear him * — " ' But ye were dead To things ye knew not of — were closely wed 1. The Friends : a Poem. In Four Books. By the Rev. Francis Hodgson, AM (1SlS). (See p. 303, note I.)...

...summer nights collected still to make The morning precious : beauty was awake ! Why were ye not awake? But ye were dead To things ye knew not of, — were...the task : A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask 200 Of Poesy. Ill-fated, impious race ! That blasphemed the bright Lyrist to his face, And did not...