The Works of Matthew Arnold in Fifteen Volumes, Volume 11AMS Press, 1970 |
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Page 205
... French company has exercised , the consequences to be drawn from it . Certainly we have something to learn from it , and some- thing to unlearn . What have we to unlearn ? Are we to unlearn our old estimate of serious French poetry and ...
... French company has exercised , the consequences to be drawn from it . Certainly we have something to learn from it , and some- thing to unlearn . What have we to unlearn ? Are we to unlearn our old estimate of serious French poetry and ...
Page 210
... French play in London , to dramatic verse . We require an adequate form of verse for high poetic drama . The accepted form with the French is the rhymed Alexandrine . Let us keep the iambic of the Greeks or of Shakspeare , let us keep ...
... French play in London , to dramatic verse . We require an adequate form of verse for high poetic drama . The accepted form with the French is the rhymed Alexandrine . Let us keep the iambic of the Greeks or of Shakspeare , let us keep ...
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... French company was not that we should reverse our old notions about the tragedy of M. Victor Hugo , or about French classic tragedy , or even about the poetic drama of the great Molière , so neither is it the right conclusion from this ...
... French company was not that we should reverse our old notions about the tragedy of M. Victor Hugo , or about French classic tragedy , or even about the poetic drama of the great Molière , so neither is it the right conclusion from this ...
Contents
AN UNREGARDED IRISH GRIEVANCE | 79 |
ECCE CONVERTIMUR AD GENTES | 104 |
THE FUTURE OF LIBERALISM | 134 |
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