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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... give us a place to stand on and we will move the world.” This is, as we conceive, the true difficulty. Glancing for a moment at the progress of epic poetry, we shall see that the obscurity of fabulous times could be adapted to the ...
... give us a place to stand on and we will move the world.” This is, as we conceive, the true difficulty. Glancing for a moment at the progress of epic poetry, we shall see that the obscurity of fabulous times could be adapted to the ...
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... give all the unity to the subject which we find in fact to belong to the earliest forms of a nation's poetry. “Passion to excite sympathy, variety to prevent disgust flowing in a free stream of narrative verse, not the intricacy and ...
... give all the unity to the subject which we find in fact to belong to the earliest forms of a nation's poetry. “Passion to excite sympathy, variety to prevent disgust flowing in a free stream of narrative verse, not the intricacy and ...
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... gives to our mental struggles a greatness they could not have before had. We each of us feel within our own bosoms a great, an immortal foe, which, if we have subdued, we may meet with calmness every other, knowing that earth contains ...
... gives to our mental struggles a greatness they could not have before had. We each of us feel within our own bosoms a great, an immortal foe, which, if we have subdued, we may meet with calmness every other, knowing that earth contains ...
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... gives both a reason and excuse for those many epithets, which a false criticism and a false delicacy of taste is so fond of censuring. Such critics would blame the poet for praising the physical strength of his heroes, in short for ...
... gives both a reason and excuse for those many epithets, which a false criticism and a false delicacy of taste is so fond of censuring. Such critics would blame the poet for praising the physical strength of his heroes, in short for ...
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... give to such a work its unity and power. It has been well said that in reading the gay 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 ...
... give to such a work its unity and power. It has been well said that in reading the gay 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 ...
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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