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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... human mind had made towards civilization, prevented Virgil from making a like impression on his own age. To awaken admiration, he too was obliged to break from the bonds of the present, and soar beyond the bounds of history, before he ...
... human mind had made towards civilization, prevented Virgil from making a like impression on his own age. To awaken admiration, he too was obliged to break from the bonds of the present, and soar beyond the bounds of history, before he ...
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... minds may be fired to nobler deeds. In considering this question, we shall endeavor to show what reasons there are for not expecting another great epic poem, drawn from the principles of epic poetry and the human mind, and that these ...
... minds may be fired to nobler deeds. In considering this question, we shall endeavor to show what reasons there are for not expecting another great epic poem, drawn from the principles of epic poetry and the human mind, and that these ...
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... mind gives both a reason and excuse for those many epithets, which a false criticism and a false delicacy of taste ... human mind served to raise it above the dominion of sense, and taught it to grasp at a life beyond the narrow limits ...
... mind gives both a reason and excuse for those many epithets, which a false criticism and a false delicacy of taste ... human mind served to raise it above the dominion of sense, and taught it to grasp at a life beyond the narrow limits ...
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... human error or imperfection, he would gladly restore it to its original ... mind may feel the harmony of all its proportions. It is not the poet of ... human mind alone, that the interval between thought and action is the widest, and ...
... human error or imperfection, he would gladly restore it to its original ... mind may feel the harmony of all its proportions. It is not the poet of ... human mind alone, that the interval between thought and action is the widest, and ...
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... human mind, never to regain it. This will account for the appearance among us of such works as the “Sartor Resartus ... consciousness of this, that he ordered it in his will to be burned. That poem, which was the natural expression of ...
... human mind, never to regain it. This will account for the appearance among us of such works as the “Sartor Resartus ... consciousness of this, that he ordered it in his will to be burned. That poem, which was the natural expression of ...
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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