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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... creations of Milton, and for which the frowns of Dante's hell have no terror. This new page of the heroic character naturally leads us to inquire, whether we are to have no great representation of it, no embodying of this spirit in some ...
... creations of Milton, and for which the frowns of Dante's hell have no terror. This new page of the heroic character naturally leads us to inquire, whether we are to have no great representation of it, no embodying of this spirit in some ...
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... creations of Ariosto,—of his fairy howers and castles and palaces,—we are for a moment charmed and wrapt in pleasant reveries, but they are but dreams; the impression is soon shaken off; we are conscious of no master-feeling round which ...
... creations of Ariosto,—of his fairy howers and castles and palaces,—we are for a moment charmed and wrapt in pleasant reveries, but they are but dreams; the impression is soon shaken off; we are conscious of no master-feeling round which ...
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Jones Very. reverse the order in which the ancients looked at the outward creation, he looks at the world with reference to himself, and not at himself with reference to the world. How different the view which Virgil takes of his country ...
Jones Very. reverse the order in which the ancients looked at the outward creation, he looks at the world with reference to himself, and not at himself with reference to the world. How different the view which Virgil takes of his country ...
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... creations will stand before us in the clear bright sun-light of our own consciousness. My object is to show, by an analysis of the character of Shakspeare, that a desire of action was the ruling impulse of his mind; and consequently a ...
... creations will stand before us in the clear bright sun-light of our own consciousness. My object is to show, by an analysis of the character of Shakspeare, that a desire of action was the ruling impulse of his mind; and consequently a ...
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