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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... heroism of a civilized age; and it adds still more to the difficulty, that ... heroic wonder was peculiarly favorable. The advance, which the human mind ... spirit of his times. To the enlarged minds of Virgil's day, the interval ...
... heroism of a civilized age; and it adds still more to the difficulty, that ... heroic wonder was peculiarly favorable. The advance, which the human mind ... spirit of his times. To the enlarged minds of Virgil's day, the interval ...
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... heroic spirit of his age, fails of giving to them their due influence, from the want of some region of fiction beyond the dominion of history in which to place them. He cannot break from the present without violating every law of ...
... heroic spirit of his age, fails of giving to them their due influence, from the want of some region of fiction beyond the dominion of history in which to place them. He cannot break from the present without violating every law of ...
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... heroic character in the time of Homer was perfectly exhibited in outward ... heroic character of that period. The poetry of the senses, the reflection merely of ... spirit of those rules every true epic must be formed. They are not the ...
... heroic character in the time of Homer was perfectly exhibited in outward ... heroic character of that period. The poetry of the senses, the reflection merely of ... spirit of those rules every true epic must be formed. They are not the ...
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... heroic spirit of their own day, at least, in its noblest development,—they could not make a Cato or a Brutus cotemporary with an Achilles or an Ajax;—they must evoke the heroic spirits of other days, spirits reluctant to obey the spells ...
... heroic spirit of their own day, at least, in its noblest development,—they could not make a Cato or a Brutus cotemporary with an Achilles or an Ajax;—they must evoke the heroic spirits of other days, spirits reluctant to obey the spells ...
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... heroic spirit, and of which no mind, but such as has been subjected to its actual influence, can either strongly feel or vividly describe. These manners perish with their age,—there is no hand of enchantment to wave over them and ...
... heroic spirit, and of which no mind, but such as has been subjected to its actual influence, can either strongly feel or vividly describe. These manners perish with their age,—there is no hand of enchantment to wave over them and ...
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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