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 barrier to the choice of a subject, which shall exhibit the present development of the heroic character in action. In doing ...
... epic poem, drawn from the principles of epic poetry and the human mind, and that these present an insuperable barrier to the choice of a subject, which shall exhibit the present development of the heroic character in action. In doing ...
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... epic poem, a more perfect visible manifestation of the heroic character than can be again presented to the eyes of man. In a philosophical analysis of such a poem as the Iliad or Odyssey, made with reference to its epic peculiarities ...
... epic poem, a more perfect visible manifestation of the heroic character than can be again presented to the eyes of man. In a philosophical analysis of such a poem as the Iliad or Odyssey, made with reference to its epic peculiarities ...
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... poem by the introduction of dialogue, and thus rendered it, in one sense ... poems, and which belongs more or less to every people in an early stage of ... epic interest. We have thus endeavored to show that the manifestation of the ...
... poem by the introduction of dialogue, and thus rendered it, in one sense ... poems, and which belongs more or less to every people in an early stage of ... epic interest. We have thus endeavored to show that the manifestation of the ...
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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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Jones Very. for epic poetry, and that the dignity of present manners would be better understood in future ages, when ... poem is but a lunar reflection of the Iliad; and it was perhaps from a deep consciousness of this, that he ordered it ...
Jones Very. for epic poetry, and that the dignity of present manners would be better understood in future ages, when ... poem is but a lunar reflection of the Iliad; and it was perhaps from a deep consciousness of this, that he ordered it ...
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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