Prawfddarllenwyd y dudalen hon
the fancy, mend and melt the heart, elevate the mind, and please the understanding.—GOLDSMITH.
- (c) Poetry is the presentment in musical form, to the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.—RUSKIN.
- (d) The poetical' resides not in the theme and material which constitute the subject of treatment, but rather in the poet's conception of that subject. (G. & S.).
- (e) Poetry is the only verity, the expression of a sound mind speaking after the ideal, not after the apparent.—EMERSON.
- (f) Poetry is the art of the mind ex—patiating in the inner space and in the inner time of the ideas and feelings. —HEGEL.
- (g) Poetry is the art of doing by words what the painter does by means of colours.—MACAULAY.
- (2) Poetry is any composition in verse.—WHATELY.
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A. 1. Beth ydyw perthynas Barddoniaeth â Bywyd?
cf.
- (a) Poetry is at bottom a criticism of life.—M. ARNOLD.
