The Cambridge History of English Literature: The nineteenth century. ISir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller The University Press, 1915 - English literature |
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Page 64
... Aeschylus had been his constant com- panion since he crossed the Alps , in the spring of the previous year . The typical Shelleyan situation - an ideal hero confronting a tyrant — was far more unequivocally present in the Prometheus ...
... Aeschylus had been his constant com- panion since he crossed the Alps , in the spring of the previous year . The typical Shelleyan situation - an ideal hero confronting a tyrant — was far more unequivocally present in the Prometheus ...
Page 65
... Aeschylus and to Greek myth , no less than to Godwin ; but the legend which made Prometheus the son of Earth provided Shelley with a pregnant symbol for his thought . The earth- born Titan must partake of the spirit of love which ...
... Aeschylus and to Greek myth , no less than to Godwin ; but the legend which made Prometheus the son of Earth provided Shelley with a pregnant symbol for his thought . The earth- born Titan must partake of the spirit of love which ...
Page 93
... Aeschylus , he was steeped in the rich humanity of Shakespeare and Spenser and Browne and Wordsworth . His whole imaginative and emotional life was permeated by his eager and acute sensations ; while his senses - it is but the other ...
... Aeschylus , he was steeped in the rich humanity of Shakespeare and Spenser and Browne and Wordsworth . His whole imaginative and emotional life was permeated by his eager and acute sensations ; while his senses - it is but the other ...
Page 99
... Aeschylus , there is nothing anywhere that surpasses the last and culminating stanza in poignant simplicity . Perhaps no other poem of Campbell can be named with these three , as a whole , but most of his earlier and shorter poems give ...
... Aeschylus , there is nothing anywhere that surpasses the last and culminating stanza in poignant simplicity . Perhaps no other poem of Campbell can be named with these three , as a whole , but most of his earlier and shorter poems give ...
Page 265
... Aeschylus , or a logic fence with disputatious and paradoxical undergraduates , giving and taking on even ground1 . And Keble made a man of him . Isaac Williams was a true poet , who , it may be , has not yet come into his own . The ...
... Aeschylus , or a logic fence with disputatious and paradoxical undergraduates , giving and taking on even ground1 . And Keble made a man of him . Isaac Williams was a true poet , who , it may be , has not yet come into his own . The ...
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