"The Bridling of Pegasus: Prose Papers on Poetry" by Alfred Austin. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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Austin Alfred. The Bridling of Pegasus: Prose Papers on Poetry
The Bridling of Pegasus: Prose Papers on Poetry
Table of Contents
THE ESSENTIALS OF GREAT POETRY
THE FEMININE NOTE IN ENGLISH POETRY
MILTON AND DANTE: A COMPARISON AND A CONTRAST
BYRON AND WORDSWORTH
DANTE’S REALISTIC TREATMENT OF THE IDEAL
DANTE’S POETIC CONCEPTION OF WOMAN
POETRY AND PESSIMISM
A VINDICATION OF TENNYSON
ON THE RELATION OF LITERATURE TO POLITICS
A CONVERSATION WITH SHAKESPEARE IN THE ELYSIAN FIELDS
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Alfred Austin
Published by Good Press, 2021
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are briefer specimens of what may be, and has been contributed in later times to religious poetry; much smaller in bulk and volume than poetry dedicated to the love of individuals for each other, but higher in the rising scale of greatness, because of the greater dignity of its theme.
Patriotic Lyrical Poetry need not detain us long. Most patriotic verse, however spirited, is verse only, nothing or little more, though exceptions could be cited, such as Drayton’s Agincourt, Tennyson’s Relief of Lucknow, and The Ballad of the “Revenge.” But if in patriotic Lyrical Poetry we include, as I think we should, poetry in the English tongue, but not concerning England or the British Empire, I may name Byron’s “Isles of Greece” in Don Juan, which I had in my mind when I observed that there is in our language only one lyrical poem that can compete for the first place in Lyrical Poetry with Spenser’s Epithalamion.
