Essays and PoemsArno Press, 1972 - 175 pages |
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... epic poem , drawn from the principles of epic poetry and the human mind , and that these present an insuperable barrier to the choice of a subject , which shall exhibit the present development of the heroic character in action . In ...
... epic poem , drawn from the principles of epic poetry and the human mind , and that these present an insuperable barrier to the choice of a subject , which shall exhibit the present development of the heroic character in action . In ...
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... epic poem the mind in its present stage is capa- ble of giving . The truth of the principles , we have laid down , may be still farther tested by their application to the projected epic of Coleridge on the destruction of Jerusalem , of ...
... epic poem the mind in its present stage is capa- ble of giving . The truth of the principles , we have laid down , may be still farther tested by their application to the projected epic of Coleridge on the destruction of Jerusalem , of ...
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... epic of this age , or of any to come . may be seen from what has already been said . What made Milton's subject great , and what can now alone make any subject for epic interest great , was the action made visible of a superior ...
... epic of this age , or of any to come . may be seen from what has already been said . What made Milton's subject great , and what can now alone make any subject for epic interest great , was the action made visible of a superior ...
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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