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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... admiration, he too was obliged to break from the bonds of the present, and soar beyond the bounds of history, before he could throw his spell of power over the mind. Why had he less influence? Because he could not, like Homer, carry ...
... admiration, he too was obliged to break from the bonds of the present, and soar beyond the bounds of history, before he could throw his spell of power over the mind. Why had he less influence? Because he could not, like Homer, carry ...
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... admiration which is the leading aim of the epic. We have made this analysis of the Iliad, to show in what way all things combined in Homer's age to assist him in giving a perfect outward manifestation of the heroic character of his ...
... admiration which is the leading aim of the epic. We have made this analysis of the Iliad, to show in what way all things combined in Homer's age to assist him in giving a perfect outward manifestation of the heroic character of his ...
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... admiration, which is the leading aim of the epic poem. We need not stop to show how ridiculous Iris would have appeared on the plains of Pharsalia bringing a sword to Pompey, or Venus coming to snatch him away in a cloud. It is evident ...
... admiration, which is the leading aim of the epic poem. We need not stop to show how ridiculous Iris would have appeared on the plains of Pharsalia bringing a sword to Pompey, or Venus coming to snatch him away in a cloud. It is evident ...
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... admiration, subjected him to a far greater difficulty than any yet experienced by former poets; that of finding a subject, an action to fill those boundless realms of space, and call forth the energies of the spirits that people it. In ...
... admiration, subjected him to a far greater difficulty than any yet experienced by former poets; that of finding a subject, an action to fill those boundless realms of space, and call forth the energies of the spirits that people it. In ...
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... admiration they then did, but because we have become sensible of a power within which bids the tide of war roll back upon its fountains. For the same reason it is that the manners of civilized nations are unsuited for heroic song. They ...
... admiration they then did, but because we have become sensible of a power within which bids the tide of war roll back upon its fountains. For the same reason it is that the manners of civilized nations are unsuited for heroic song. They ...
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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