Definition of Poetry Essay

According to W.H.Hudson we all have a sense of what meter constitutes. There are innumer adequate to(p) definitions of rime given by poets and critics of poetry and out of which Hudson chooses some famous definitions.They are given below * Johnson mensural composition , it is the art of uniting pleasure with truth by profession imagination to the help of reason * Macaulay we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination, the art of doing by government agency of words what the painter does by means of colours * Carlyle We will call Musical thought* Shelley In a general sense may be defined as the verbiage of the imagination * Hazlitt It is the terminology of the imagination and the dears * Leigh Hunt The utterance of a passion for truth, beauty, and power, embodying and illustrating its conceptions by imagination and fancy, and modulating its language on the principle of variety in unity * Coleridge Poetry is the antithesis of s cience, having for its immediate object pleasure, not truth * WordsworthIt is the steer and finer spirit of all knowledge and the impassi superstard expression which is in the countenance of all science * Edgar Allan Poe It is the rhythmic creation of beauty * Keble A vent for overcharged feeling or a full imagination * Doyle It expresses our dissatisfaction with what is turn over and close at hand * Ruskin The suggestion by the imagination, of noble one thousand for the noble emotions * Prof.Courthope The art of producing pleasure by the just expression of visionary thought and feeling in metrical language * Mr. Watts-Dunton The concrete and elegant expression of the kind mind in emotional and rhythmical language * Matthew Arnold* It is simply the most delightful and sinless form of utterance that human words can reach * It is nothing less than the most perfect speech of man that in which he comes nearest to being able to utter the truth * It is a criticism of life under th e conditions refractory for such a criticism by the laws of poetical truth and poetic beautyAs Hudson state when we look at them critically, and compare them with one another, certain disturbing facts about them become clear. Commenting on these definitions Hudson concludes they are almost distracting in their variety because the subject is approached from many different points of view. Some, strictly speaking, transgress to define, because they express rather what is poetical in general, wherever it may be found, than what is specifically poetry.Some, on the other hand, are too narrow and exclusive, because they have a go at it only the particular kind of poetry in which the writer happened to be personally interested.