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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... strongly than any other the great moral wants of his age, that can 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 ...
... strongly than any other the great moral wants of his age, that can 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 ...
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... strongly feel or vividly describe. These manners perish with their age,—there is no hand of enchantment to wave over them and convert them, like the fabled city of Arabian romance, into living stone; no convulsion of nature, like that ...
... strongly feel or vividly describe. These manners perish with their age,—there is no hand of enchantment to wave over them and convert them, like the fabled city of Arabian romance, into living stone; no convulsion of nature, like that ...
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... strongly exhibited that development, had he lived nearer the age he endeavored to portray. The effect of Christianity was to make the individual mind the great object of regard, the centre of eternal interest, and transferring the scene ...
... strongly exhibited that development, had he lived nearer the age he endeavored to portray. The effect of Christianity was to make the individual mind the great object of regard, the centre of eternal interest, and transferring the scene ...
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... strongly the conclusion we drew from Dante's, that dramatic is supplying the place of epic interest. His long deliberation in the choice of a subject suited to his conceptions, shows the difficulty then lying in the way of an epic; and ...
... strongly the conclusion we drew from Dante's, that dramatic is supplying the place of epic interest. His long deliberation in the choice of a subject suited to his conceptions, shows the difficulty then lying in the way of an epic; and ...
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... strongly confirms, as we think, the remarks before made on the hostility of the dramatic to the epic interest, that two of the greatest poets of our age should each have schemed an epic, yet neither completed one. Of such attempts at ...
... strongly confirms, as we think, the remarks before made on the hostility of the dramatic to the epic interest, that two of the greatest poets of our age should each have schemed an epic, yet neither completed one. Of such attempts at ...
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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