Poets and Story-tellersBarnes & Noble, 1961 - 201 pages |
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Page 54
... Progress of Poesy he directs our mental eye to observe the great poets of the past as they file by , one by one 54 POETS AND STORY - TELLERS.
... Progress of Poesy he directs our mental eye to observe the great poets of the past as they file by , one by one 54 POETS AND STORY - TELLERS.
Page 58
... Progress of Poesy is a meditation about the fundamental significance of art . Not at all the same sort of medi- tation though . The difference between the Augustan and Romantic attitude to life could not appear more vividly than in the ...
... Progress of Poesy is a meditation about the fundamental significance of art . Not at all the same sort of medi- tation though . The difference between the Augustan and Romantic attitude to life could not appear more vividly than in the ...
Page 66
... Progress of Poesy : for it is in these Pindaric Odes that Gray's virtuosity appears most conspicuously . They are not , however , his most successful works . For in them he is dealing with subject - matter which does reveal his ...
... Progress of Poesy : for it is in these Pindaric Odes that Gray's virtuosity appears most conspicuously . They are not , however , his most successful works . For in them he is dealing with subject - matter which does reveal his ...
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action admiration Adolphe æsthetic Antony and Cleopatra Antony's appear artist aspects beauty Branghtons Burney's character charm comedy comic complex convention critic Dalloway death Devil drama Duchess Duchess of Malfi E. M. FORSTER eighteenth-century Elizabethan Ellénore emotion English Evelina experience expression eyes fact Fanny Burney feeling Forster give Gray Gray's hand heart heroine historical House of Gentlefolk Howard's End human humour imagination impression inevitably intensity Jane Austen ladies living Longest Journey looked love-story Mansfield Park mind Miss mood moral mystery nature never novel novelists observation Octavius once passages passion picture Pindaric play plot poem poet poetry Progress of Poesy reader realistic reality relation reveals romantic Russian satirical scene seems sense sensibility Shakespeare significance social soul spirit story success talent taste theme things THOMAS GRAY thought tragedy tragic true Turgenev turn Virginia Woolf virtue vision Webster Wilcox worldly writer