Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan Company, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 54
... historic appeal ? His aesthetic emotion was always most intense when it was reinforced by his historic interest , when what was beautiful was also evocative of some vanished age . Indeed , he always tends to see the contemporary world ...
... historic appeal ? His aesthetic emotion was always most intense when it was reinforced by his historic interest , when what was beautiful was also evocative of some vanished age . Indeed , he always tends to see the contemporary world ...
Page 57
... historical and aesthetic strain in him . That on the Installation of the Duke of Grafton as Chancellor of Cambridge was , it is true , originally designed as an occasional piece . But in it Gray takes advantage of the occasion to show ...
... historical and aesthetic strain in him . That on the Installation of the Duke of Grafton as Chancellor of Cambridge was , it is true , originally designed as an occasional piece . But in it Gray takes advantage of the occasion to show ...
Page 58
A Book of Critical Essays David Cecil. Poesy is less historical , more aesthetic . Though in the second part Gray traces the development of poetic art from Greece to Rome and from Rome to England , this historical motive is made ...
A Book of Critical Essays David Cecil. Poesy is less historical , more aesthetic . Though in the second part Gray traces the development of poetic art from Greece to Rome and from Rome to England , this historical motive is made ...
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