Essays And PoemsRead Books Ltd, 2013 M07 8 - 180 pages Jones Very was an American poet and essayist associated with the American Transcendentalism movement. Here stands a wonderful collection on Very's essays and poetry. Essays include: Epic Poetry, Shakespeare and Hamlet. Poems include: To the Humming Bird, To the Fossil Flower, The Tree, Beauty, The New Birth, The Soldier, The Earth and many many more. |
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... Milton and Dante chose this spot, on which with almost creative power they might show to mankind worlds of their own, “won from the void and formless Infinite,” and from which their own heroic spirits might be reflected back upon their ...
... Milton and Dante chose this spot, on which with almost creative power they might show to mankind worlds of their own, “won from the void and formless Infinite,” and from which their own heroic spirits might be reflected back upon their ...
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... Milton says of our first parents, “was all before them,” and not within them, and their mission was to go forth and make a material impression on the material world. The soul of Homer was the mirror of this outward world, and in his ...
... Milton says of our first parents, “was all before them,” and not within them, and their mission was to go forth and make a material impression on the material world. The soul of Homer was the mirror of this outward world, and in his ...
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... Milton have failed; and the causes which have operated against them, will always operate with increasing force against every attempt to represent the present or future development of the heroic character in action. It is in the ...
... Milton have failed; and the causes which have operated against them, will always operate with increasing force against every attempt to represent the present or future development of the heroic character in action. It is in the ...
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... Milton. The subject chosen by Tasso, and the time of the action of his poem, bore the same relation to Christian civilization as Homer's did to Grecian. It was the only age in which the heroic Christian character could be fully ...
... Milton. The subject chosen by Tasso, and the time of the action of his poem, bore the same relation to Christian civilization as Homer's did to Grecian. It was the only age in which the heroic Christian character could be fully ...
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... Milton, arising from circumstances which have rendered the difficulty far more formidable since his time. If we consider Tasso as having chosen a subject exhibiting the first development of the Christian heroic character, the poem of ...
... Milton, arising from circumstances which have rendered the difficulty far more formidable since his time. If we consider Tasso as having chosen a subject exhibiting the first development of the Christian heroic character, the poem of ...
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admiration Aristotle beauty become beneath bloom bosom breast breath child childlike Christ Christian consciousness creations dæmon Dante’s dark death Divine doth e’en earth endeavor to show epic interest epic poem epic poetry eternal exhibit existence Father feel felt flower forever genius gift give God’s Hamlet hand Harfleur hast hear heart heaven heroes heroic character heroic spirit Homer hour human mind Iago Iliad impulse influence innocence light live look Lucan Macbeth man’s Menelaus Milton mind’s motive natural action nature’s never night o’er objects onward ourselves outward Paradise Lost perfect physical play poet poet’s Polonius possessed praise present rendered rest robes Sartor Resartus seems selfishness sense Shakspeare Shakspeare’s mind soliloquy song soul speak stand strange stream strongly sublime sweet tell thee thine things Thou may’st thought tongue tree unconscious utter Virgil visible voice wind wonder words