Quotes from The Bridling of Pegasus — Alfred Austin
1835–1913 England
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Imagination in Poetry, as distinguished from mere Fancy, is the transfiguring of the Real, or actual, into the Ideal.
The Bridling of Pegasus (1910)
[N]o verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as Poetry, whatever other qualities it may possess.
The Bridling of Pegasus (1910)
The most generous of critics, if he is to be discriminating and just, cannot, let me say again, allow that any verse which is profoundly obscure or utterly unmusical, no matter how intellectual in substance, deserves the appellation of poetry. But on a very thin thread of meaning poetry, or a very fair imitation of it, may be hung by the aid of musical sound.
The Bridling of Pegasus (1910)