...who valued poetry because of its direct appeal, in his words, "to the great primary human affections: to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time." 15 These responses also reflect one of the chief pleasures asso-ciated with novel reading, in which...

...Arnold, appeals most powerfully to "the great primary human affections" as do all the minor episodes, or to "those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time." Tulasi is so inextricably caught in these episodes that the very telling of them is extremely moving...

...which now seem wide-eyed or blinkered.61 Unlike Arnold's 1853 insistence that poetry should treat of 'those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time', this 'twinkling of an eye' speaks more of cultural subsidence than of cultural subsistence. Broken...

...Poems, Arnold sought to sustain humanist essendalism by arguing that the "eternal objects" of poetry are those "elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time," although "The Scholar-Gipsy," his poem in that volume about the relationship between past ideals and...

...most excellent actions as those "which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections: to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time" (1979, p. 4). In the twentieth century, the most prominent theorist of literary universals has been...

...most excellent actions as those "which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections: to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time"(1979,p.4). 1n the twentieth century, the most prominent theorist of literary universals has been...

...the most excellent? Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary affections: to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently...that which interests them is permanent and the same also."20 The basis of Arnold's argument is threefold: first, human nature exists; second, it is universal...

...poetry, he replied: Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections: to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time. . . .To the elementary part of our nature, to our passions, that which is great and passionate is eternally...

..."actions, human actions. . .those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary affections: to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time." Perhaps I am applying the word "actions" very flexibly to the subject matter of the poems of Arnold...