Essays and PoemsArno Press, 1972 - 175 pages |
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Page 12
... poet addressed to a seeing and listening , rather than a reading people , was the poetry of fancy rather than sentiment . Events , characters , superstitions , customs , and traditions , all combined in rendering the Iliad a perfect ...
... poet addressed to a seeing and listening , rather than a reading people , was the poetry of fancy rather than sentiment . Events , characters , superstitions , customs , and traditions , all combined in rendering the Iliad a perfect ...
Page 20
... poet , feeling itself contending with motives of godlike power within , must express that conflict in the dramatic form , in the poetry of sentiment . Were the present a fit opportunity , Shakspeare might afford us still farther ...
... poet , feeling itself contending with motives of godlike power within , must express that conflict in the dramatic form , in the poetry of sentiment . Were the present a fit opportunity , Shakspeare might afford us still farther ...
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... poetry as Homer's , we must not only evoke him from the shades , but also his times . Purely object- ive poetry is the most perfect , and possesses the most interest , only in the childhood of the human mind . In the poetry of the ...
... poetry as Homer's , we must not only evoke him from the shades , but also his times . Purely object- ive poetry is the most perfect , and possesses the most interest , only in the childhood of the human mind . In the poetry of the ...
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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