Definition of Poetry

What is poesy? According to W. H. Hudson we each in all have a sense of what verse line constitutes. There are innumerable definitions of calculated composition granted by poets and critics of poesy and come out of which Hudson chooses some famous definitions. They are given below * Johnson Metrical composition , it is the artistry of uniting joy with the true by calling imagination to the help of drive * 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 means of words what the painter does by means of colours * Carlyle We allow for call Musical thought Shelley In a general sense may be defined as the recipe of the imagination * Hazlitt It is the language of the imagination and the passions * Leigh execute The chatterance of a passion for verity, beauty, and power, embodying and illustrating its conceptions by imagination and fancy, and modulating its language on the formula of variety in unity * Coleridge Poetry is the antithesis of science, having for its immediate object pleasure, not truth * Wordsworth It is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge and the impassi whizzd facial gesture which is in the countenance of all science * Edgar Allan Poe It is the cadenced creation of beauty * Keble A departure for overcharged feeling or a full moon imagination * Doyle It expresses our dissatisfaction with what is present and close at hand * Ruskin The suggestion by the imagination, of dire grounds for the noble emotions * Prof. Courthope The art of producing pleasure by the just expression of grotesque thought and feeling in metrical language * Mr. Watts-Dunton The concrete and artistic expression of the human mind in frantic and rhythmical language * Matthew Arnold It is simply the nigh delightful and perfect tense form of utterance that human words can decease * 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 look under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty As Hudson offer when we look at them critically, and compare them with one an another(prenominal), certain disturbing facts about them blend clear. Commenting on these definitions Hudson concludes they are almost distracting in their variety because the subject is approached from many contrasting points of view. Some, strictly speaking, fail to define, because they express sooner 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 pull in only the particular kind of poetry in which the writer happened to be in person interested.