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GENERAL notion which I can give of poetry is,that it is the natural impression of any object or event,by itsvividness exciting an involuntary movement of imagination andpassion,and producing,by sympathy,a certain modulation ofthe voice,or sounds,expressing it.  \nIn treating of poetry,I shall speak first of the subject-matterof it,next of the forms of expression to which it gives birth,andafterwards of its connexion with harmony of sound.  \nPoetry is the language of the imagination and the passions.It relates to whatever gives immediate pleasure or pain to thehuman mind.It comes home to the bosoms and business of men;for nothing but what so comes home to them in the most generaland intelligible shape,can be a subject for poetry.Poetry is theuniversal language which the heart holds with nature itself.Hewho has a contempt for poetry,cannot have much respect forhimself,or for anything else.It is not a mere frivolous accom-plishment (as some persons have been led to imagine),the trif-ing amusement of a few idle readers or leisure hours—it hasbeen the study and delight of mankind in all ages.Many peoplesuppose that poetry is something to be found only in books,con-tained in lines of ten syllables,with like endings:but whereverthere is a sense of beauty,or power,or harmony,as in the motionof a wave of the sea,in the growth of a flower that ‘spreads itssweet leaves to the air,and dedicates its beauty to the sun,一there is poetry,in its birth.If history is a grave study,poetrymay be said to be a graver:its materials lie deeper,and arespread wider.History treats,for the most part,of the cumbrousand unwieldy masses of things,the empty cases in which theaffairs of the world are packed,under the heads of intrigue orwar,in different states,and from century to century:but thereis no thought or feeling that can have entered into the mind ofman,which he would be eager to communicate to others,orwhich they would listen to with delight,that is not a fit subiectfor poetry.It is not a branch of authorship:it is ‘the stuff of  \nLITERARY CRITICISM:A READING  \nwhich our life is made.'The rest is 'mere oblivion,'a dead letter:for all that is worth remembering in life,is the poetry of it.Fearis poetry,hope is poetry,love is poetry,hatred is poetry;con-tempt,jealousy,rcmorse,admiration,wonder,pity,despair,ormadness,are all poetry.Poetry is that ine particle within us,that expands,rarefies,refines,raises our whole being:withoutit ‘man's life is poor as beast's.'Man is a poetical animal:andthose of us who do not study the principles of poetry,act uponthem all our lives,like Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme,whqhad always spoken prose without knowing it.The child is apoet in fuct,when he first plays at hide-and-seek,or repeatsthe story of Jack the Giant-killer;the shepherd-boy is a poet,when he first crowns his mistress with a garland of flowers;thecountryman,when he stops to look at the rainbow;the city-apprentice,when he gazes after the Lord Mayor's show;themiser,when he hugs his gold;the courtier,who builds his hopesupon a smile;the savage,who paints his idol with blood;theslave,who worships a tyrant,or the tyrant,who fancies himselfa god;—the vain,the ambitious,the proud,the choleric man,the hero and the coward,the beggar and the king,the rich andthe poor,the young and the old,all live in a world of theirown making;and the poet does no more than describe whatall the others think and act...  \nPoetry then is an imitation of nature,but the imagination andthe passions are a part of man's nature.We shape things accord-ing to our wishes and fancies,without poetry;but poetry is themost emphatical language that can be found for those creationsof the mind 'which ecstasy is very cunning in.'Neither a meredescription of natural objects,nor a mere delineation of naturalfeelings,however distinct or forcible,constitutes the ultimate endand aim of poetry,without the heightenings of the imagination.The light of poetry 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