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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... epic poem, drawn from the principles of epic poetry and the human mind, and that these present an insuperable ... interest, and the final emerging of that interest in the dramatic, is the natural result of the influences to which the ...
... epic poem, drawn from the principles of epic poetry and the human mind, and that these present an insuperable ... interest, and the final emerging of that interest in the dramatic, is the natural result of the influences to which the ...
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... epic poem, a more perfect visible manifestation of the heroic character than ... interest with which they would be viewed by the mass of his countrymen, as ... interest of his poem as they suggested themselves to his mind, would also ...
... epic poem, a more perfect visible manifestation of the heroic character than ... interest with which they would be viewed by the mass of his countrymen, as ... interest of his poem as they suggested themselves to his mind, would also ...
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... interest is awakened, dramatic poetry succeds the epic, thus satisfying the want produced by the farther development of our nature. For the interest of the epic consists in that character of greatness that in the infancy of the mind is ...
... interest is awakened, dramatic poetry succeds the epic, thus satisfying the want produced by the farther development of our nature. For the interest of the epic consists in that character of greatness that in the infancy of the mind is ...
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... epic interest. We have thus endeavored to show that the manifestation of the heroic character in the time of Homer was perfectly exhibited in outward visible action, and that this reflected from the soul of the poet addressed to a ...
... epic interest. We have thus endeavored to show that the manifestation of the heroic character in the time of Homer was perfectly exhibited in outward visible action, and that this reflected from the soul of the poet addressed to a ...
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... epic should be one and entire, and that it should be a great action, he tells us of what constitutes its essence, and of that without which it ceases to be such a poem. It must be one and entire that the interest may not be distracted ...
... epic should be one and entire, and that it should be a great action, he tells us of what constitutes its essence, and of that without which it ceases to be such a poem. It must be one and entire that the interest may not be distracted ...
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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