...Indefinite of a definite pleasure, being a poem only so far as this pleasure. object is attained ; romance presenting perceptible images with definite...the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definiteness. EA POE, Letter to B , 1836. [A] poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites,...

...an indefinite instead of a definite pleasure, being a poem only so far as this object is attained; romance presenting perceptible images with definite,...without the music is prose from its very definitiveness. What was meant by the invective against him who had no music in his soul? * * * To sum up this long...

...an indefinite instead of a definite pleasure, being a poem only so far as this object is attained; romance presenting perceptible- images with definite,...simply music; the idea without the music is prose torn its very definitiveness. What was meant by the invective against him who had no music in his soul?...

...this object is attained; romance presenting perceptible images with definite, poetry with zwdefinite sensations, to which end music is an essential, since...the idea without the music is prose from its very defmitiveness." Poe's theorizing on the subject was, doubtless, prompted by his reading of Coleridge...

...an indefinite instead of a definite pleasure, being a poem only so far as this object is attained : romance presenting perceptible images with definite,...without the music is prose from its very definitiveness. To sum up ... I have, dear B , what you no doubt perceive, for the metaphysical poets, as poets, the...

...an indefinite instead of a definite pleasure, being a poem only so far as this object is attained; romance presenting perceptible images with definite,...of sweet sound is our most indefinite conception." With this point of view in mind, one readily perceives the reason on one hand of the tenuous, the evanescent...

...an indefinite instead of a definite pleasure, being a poem only so far as this object is attained; romance presenting perceptible images with definite,...the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness. What was meant by the invective against him who had no music in his soul? • •••••••••...

...music, though subconsciously feeling that the two are synonymous. But as The Poet expressed it : " Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry...the idea without the music is prose from its very definiteness." On the other hand Poe held that Music resembles poetry ; in each Are nameless graces...

...an indefinite instead of a definite pleasure, being a poem only so far , as this object is attained; romance presenting perceptible \ images with definite,...an essential, since the comprehension , ,o'f sweet sounds is our most indefinite conception. Music,, /j \\ when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry;...

...sensations, and this even in theoretical as well as applied poetics. Poe wrote : " Poetry presents images with indefinite sensations to which end music is an...of sweet sound is our most indefinite conception." (Prefatory Letter to Mr. , in Poems, 1831, reprinted in Volume 10 of Poe's Works, edited by EC Stedman,...