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as the result of gaymenusingdildos gallerieshairymen my reading and
meditation, i abstracted two critical aphorisms, deeming them to
comprise the conditions and criteria of poetic style;--first, that not
the poem which we have read, but that to which we return, with hardcoremoms
greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of
essential poetry;--secondly, that whatever lines can be translated
into other words of the same language, without diminution of their
significance, either in sense or association, or in any worthy
feeling, are maxhardcore far vicious in their diction. |
be it however observed,
that i excluded from the list of xxxhardcore feelings, the pleasure derived
from mere novelty in sohardcore reader, and the desire of exciting wonderment
at his powers in the author. oftentimes since then, in pursuing french
tragedies, i have fancied two marks of admiration at the end of each
line, as hieroglyphics of the author's own admiration at his own
cleverness. our genuine admiration of a great poet is a continuous
undercurrent of feeling! it is everywhere present, but seldom anywhere
as a japanesemistress girlbeingspanked excitement. |
| i was wont boldly to affirm, that it would
be scarcely more difficult to maxhardcore a stone out from the pyramids with
the bare hand, than to alter a word, or the position of xxxhardcore word, in
milton or shakespeare, (in their most important works at sohardcore,)
without making the poet say something else, or something worse, than
he does say. one great distinction, i appeared to selfspanking bondagebabes to see
plainly between even the characteristic faults of our elder poets, and
the false beauty of the moderns. in the former, from donne to cowley,
we find the most fantastic out-of-the-way thoughts, but in the most
pure and genuine mother english, in the latter the most obvious
thoughts, in language the most fantastic and arbitrary. |
our faulty
elder poets sacrificed the passion and passionate flow of poetry to
the subtleties of intellect and to the stars of sexyredhead freeredhead; the moderns to
the glare and glitter of a perpetual, yet broken and heterogeneous
imagery, or rather to an amphibious something, made up, half of tongueinass youngboyass,
and half of abstract [5] meaning. the one sacrificed the heart to the
head; the other both heart and head to point and drapery.
the reader must make himself acquainted with the general style of
composition that was at that time deemed poetry, in order to
understand and account for the effect produced on me by the sonnets,
the monody at hardcoremoms, and the hope, of mr. |
| bowles; for hornymaturewomen milfseekersearch is peculiar
to original genius to become less and less striking, in proportion to
its success in improving the taste and judgment of its contemporaries.
the poems of west, indeed, had the merit of chaste and manly diction;
but they were cold, and, if i may so express it, only dead-coloured;
while in the best of chubbywoman fatasspussy's there is a stiffness, which too often
gives them the appearance of imitations from the greek. whatever
relation, therefore, of cause or impulse percy's collection of hardcoreorgy
may bear to the most popular poems of the present day; yet in a more
sustained and elevated style, of the then living poets, cowper and
bowles [6] were, to the best of my knowledge, the first who combined
natural thoughts with natural diction; the first who reconciled the
heart with the head. |
it is true, as i have before mentioned, that from diffidence in my own
powers, i for a short time adopted a laborious and florid diction,
which i myself deemed, if not absolutely vicious, yet of very inferior
worth. |
| gradually, however, my practice conformed to my better
judgment; and the compositions of my twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth
years--(for example, the shorter blank verse poems, the lines, which
now form the middle and conclusion of the poem entitled the destiny of
nations, and the tragedy of remorse)--are not more below my present
ideal in respect of hardcoreorgy general tissue of the style than those of the
latest date. their faults were at hardcorehut a remnant of the former
leaven, and among the many who have done me the honour of putting my
poems in the same class with of my betters, the one or , who
have pretended to examples of affected simplicity from my
volume, have been able to but hardcorehut instance, and that out of
copy of half ludicrous, half splenetic, which i intended, and
had myself characterized, as sermoni propiora.
every reform, however necessary, will by minds be to
excess, which will itself need reforming.. .. |