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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... Virgil from making a like impression on his own age. To awaken admiration, he too was obliged to break from the ... Virgil's day, the interval between the siege of Troy and their own time did not seem wider than it did to those who lived ...
... Virgil from making a like impression on his own age. To awaken admiration, he too was obliged to break from the ... Virgil's day, the interval between the siege of Troy and their own time did not seem wider than it did to those who lived ...
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... Virgil failed in making the same impression on his age, that was made by his great model. His poem is but a lunar ... Virgil's subject is well chosen, and would not have shone with reflected light had it been treated of in the early days ...
... Virgil failed in making the same impression on his age, that was made by his great model. His poem is but a lunar ... Virgil's subject is well chosen, and would not have shone with reflected light had it been treated of in the early days ...
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... Virgil, whom he has so closely followed, greater originality, and more strongly exhibited that development, had he lived nearer the age he endeavored to portray. The effect of Christianity was to make the individual mind the great ...
... Virgil, whom he has so closely followed, greater originality, and more strongly exhibited that development, had he lived nearer the age he endeavored to portray. The effect of Christianity was to make the individual mind the great ...
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... Virgil's, and turned upon himself, as an individual, the interest which man in their times had given to the outward world. It is in Dante's poem that we find man, as a physical being, first made the great point of epic interest. He.
... Virgil's, and turned upon himself, as an individual, the interest which man in their times had given to the outward world. It is in Dante's poem that we find man, as a physical being, first made the great point of epic interest. He.
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... Virgil takes of his country from that of the Christian poet; yet each how worthy of its age! “Sed neque Medorum silvæ, ditissima terra, Nec pulcher Ganges, atque aure turbidus Hermus, Laudibus Italiæ certent; non Bactra, neque Indi ...
... Virgil takes of his country from that of the Christian poet; yet each how worthy of its age! “Sed neque Medorum silvæ, ditissima terra, Nec pulcher Ganges, atque aure turbidus Hermus, Laudibus Italiæ certent; non Bactra, neque Indi ...
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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