Essays and PoemsArno Press, 1972 - 175 pages |
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... poem of Tasso forms the only exception to this remark , and this , as we have shown , does but confirm our ... poem is consequently much less than in those which ex- hibit the later developments of the Christian heroic character . By ...
... poem of Tasso forms the only exception to this remark , and this , as we have shown , does but confirm our ... poem is consequently much less than in those which ex- hibit the later developments of the Christian heroic character . By ...
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... poem , were , if we may so say , epic , yet the form which that poem took , shows the hostility which the Christian influence has towards the strictly classical model . That influence had already divested of its greatness every subject ...
... poem , were , if we may so say , epic , yet the form which that poem took , shows the hostility which the Christian influence has towards the strictly classical model . That influence had already divested of its greatness every subject ...
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... 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 which ...
... 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 which ...
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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