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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... decision, and upon whose alone, its destiny hung. This is the mystery of that calm, more awful than the roar of battle, which rests on the spirits of the mighty, and which the hand of the Grecian sculptor strove to fix.
... decision, and upon whose alone, its destiny hung. This is the mystery of that calm, more awful than the roar of battle, which rests on the spirits of the mighty, and which the hand of the Grecian sculptor strove to fix.
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Jones Very. which the hand of the Grecian sculptor strove to fix on the brow of his god. Though Homer has given variety to his poem by the introduction of dialogue, and thus rendered it, in one sense, often dramatic; yet we find it is ...
Jones Very. which the hand of the Grecian sculptor strove to fix on the brow of his god. Though Homer has given variety to his poem by the introduction of dialogue, and thus rendered it, in one sense, often dramatic; yet we find it is ...
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... hand of art. Virgil's subject is well chosen, and would not have shone with reflected light had it been treated of in the early days of Rome. He summoned again from their long sleep the heroes and gods of Troy, but they appeared with ...
... hand of art. Virgil's subject is well chosen, and would not have shone with reflected light had it been treated of in the early days of Rome. He summoned again from their long sleep the heroes and gods of Troy, but they appeared with ...
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... hand of time, to stand unimpaired amid the ruins of the past, and gaze with wonder on the newrisen generations of men. But if, like Lucan, they took their subject from the hands of History, the skepticism of a more advanced age deprived ...
... hand of time, to stand unimpaired amid the ruins of the past, and gaze with wonder on the newrisen generations of men. But if, like Lucan, they took their subject from the hands of History, the skepticism of a more advanced age deprived ...
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... hand and the tongue. This may serve to reveal to us more clearly the principle which led to the selection of the subjects of all the great epic poems of modern times; for it was only by making man the subject, around which might be ...
... hand and the tongue. This may serve to reveal to us more clearly the principle which led to the selection of the subjects of all the great epic poems of modern times; for it was only by making man the subject, around which might be ...
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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