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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... stream of narrative verse, not the intricacy and dove-tailing of modern epics, is to be looked for in the Iliad; for it was not made like a modern epic to be read in our closets, but to be presented only in fragments before the minds of ...
... stream of narrative verse, not the intricacy and dove-tailing of modern epics, is to be looked for in the Iliad; for it was not made like a modern epic to be read in our closets, but to be presented only in fragments before the minds of ...
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... stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms or watery depths,—all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason.” In Dante's time, Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven had long been considered as the separate states in which vice and ...
... stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms or watery depths,—all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason.” In Dante's time, Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven had long been considered as the separate states in which vice and ...
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... streams of life and joy. Why then it may be asked do we take an interest in Homer's heroes, whom the gods are ready every moment to shield or snatch from the dubious fight? Not, I answer, because we consider them mere machines acting ...
... streams of life and joy. Why then it may be asked do we take an interest in Homer's heroes, whom the gods are ready every moment to shield or snatch from the dubious fight? Not, I answer, because we consider them mere machines acting ...
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... streams of war, it bids the bosom open whence they rushed, and points him downward to their source, the ocean might of the soul, “Dark—heaving—boundless, endless, and sublime— The image of eternity—the throne Of the Invisible.” Thus ...
... streams of war, it bids the bosom open whence they rushed, and points him downward to their source, the ocean might of the soul, “Dark—heaving—boundless, endless, and sublime— The image of eternity—the throne Of the Invisible.” Thus ...
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... streams that they saw, to hear the same sabbath bells, to linger beneath the roof under which they lived, and be shaded by the same tree which shaded them. It is pleasant, for it makes us, as it were, companions of their earthly ...
... streams that they saw, to hear the same sabbath bells, to linger beneath the roof under which they lived, and be shaded by the same tree which shaded them. It is pleasant, for it makes us, as it were, companions of their earthly ...
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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