Essays and PoemsArno Press, 1972 - 175 pages |
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Page 18
... Christianity overcame , but subjected the epic poet to others still more discouraging , as I shall endeavor to show by ... Christian character could be fully manifested in outward action . This resulted from a peculiar state of the mind ...
... Christianity overcame , but subjected the epic poet to others still more discouraging , as I shall endeavor to show by ... Christian character could be fully manifested in outward action . This resulted from a peculiar state of the mind ...
Page 21
... the bounds of time , Christianity has , I think , rendered every finite subject unsuited for an epic poem . The Christian creed , in opening the vista of eternity before the poet's view , and leaving EPIC POETRY . 21.
... the bounds of time , Christianity has , I think , rendered every finite subject unsuited for an epic poem . The Christian creed , in opening the vista of eternity before the poet's view , and leaving EPIC POETRY . 21.
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... Christian char- acter . His poem plainly shows that the tendency which Christianity gave to poetry was not to the epic but to the dramatic form , and if it freed the heroic poet from difficulties to which he was before liable , it also ...
... Christian char- acter . His poem plainly shows that the tendency which Christianity gave to poetry was not to the epic but to the dramatic form , and if it freed the heroic poet from difficulties to which he was before liable , it also ...
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admiration Aristotle beauty become beneath bloom bosom Boston breast breath bright child childlike Christ Christian consciousness creations dæmon dark death Divine doth earth ence endeavor to show epic interest epic poem epic poetry eternal exhibit existence Father feel felt flower forever free agency genius gift give Hamlet hand Harfleur hast hear heart heaven heroes heroic character heroic spirit Homer hour human mind Iliad impulse influence JAMES BROWN light live look Lucan Macbeth Menelaus Milton motive Nathaniel Parker natural action never night o'er objects onward ourselves outward Paradise Lost perfect play poet poet's Polonius possessed praise present rejoice rendered rest robes seems selfishness sense Shakspeare Shakspeare's mind song soul speak stand strange stream strongly sweet tell thee thine things thou thought tion tism tongue tree uncon unconscious utter Virgil visible voice wind wonder words