Lectures on the English PoetsWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 255 páginas |
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... genius , though not " dipped in dews of Castalie , " was baptised with the Holy Spirit and with fire . The prints in this book are no small part of it . If the confinement of Philoctetes in the island of Lemnos was a subject for the ...
... genius , though not " dipped in dews of Castalie , " was baptised with the Holy Spirit and with fire . The prints in this book are no small part of it . If the confinement of Philoctetes in the island of Lemnos was a subject for the ...
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... genius of a poet . It has been made a question whether Richardson's romances are poetry ; and the answer , perhaps , is that they are not poetry , be- cause they are not romance . The interest is worked up to an inconceivable height ...
... genius of a poet . It has been made a question whether Richardson's romances are poetry ; and the answer , perhaps , is that they are not poetry , be- cause they are not romance . The interest is worked up to an inconceivable height ...
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... genius is like Ariel confined in a pine - tree , and requires an arti- ficial process to let it out . Shakspeare says- " Our poesy is as a gum Which issues whence ' tis nourished , our gentle flame Provokes itself , and , like the ...
... genius is like Ariel confined in a pine - tree , and requires an arti- ficial process to let it out . Shakspeare says- " Our poesy is as a gum Which issues whence ' tis nourished , our gentle flame Provokes itself , and , like the ...
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... genius is not a sparkling flame , but the sullen heat of a furnace . He is power , passion , self - will personified . In all that relates to the descriptive or fanciful part of poetry he bears no comparison to many who had gone before ...
... genius is not a sparkling flame , but the sullen heat of a furnace . He is power , passion , self - will personified . In all that relates to the descriptive or fanciful part of poetry he bears no comparison to many who had gone before ...
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... genius and history of English po- etry . I shall take , as the subject of the present lecture , Chaucer and Spenser , two out of four of the greatest names in poetry which this country has to boast . Both of them , however , were much ...
... genius and history of English po- etry . I shall take , as the subject of the present lecture , Chaucer and Spenser , two out of four of the greatest names in poetry which this country has to boast . Both of them , however , were much ...
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