The Loly Grail: With introd. and notes by G[eorge] C[ampbell] MacaulayMacmillan, 1893 - 86 pages |
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Page ix
... poem to which it belongs , but artistically it may be considered to be the central point of interest . If like a regularly constructed Epic the Idylls of the King may be supposed to have a beginning , a middle , and an end , it is to ...
... poem to which it belongs , but artistically it may be considered to be the central point of interest . If like a regularly constructed Epic the Idylls of the King may be supposed to have a beginning , a middle , and an end , it is to ...
Page x
... poem consists of twelve idylls . I. 2 The word ' idyll ' originally means ' little picture , ' and thence came to designate a short picturesque poem , generally of a pastoral kind . Of this class of poem a beautiful example is given by ...
... poem consists of twelve idylls . I. 2 The word ' idyll ' originally means ' little picture , ' and thence came to designate a short picturesque poem , generally of a pastoral kind . Of this class of poem a beautiful example is given by ...
Page xi
... poem was published , and the probability that a considerable portion of it was produced before the plan of the whole had been fully formed . This view of the Idylls as a single poem is objected to by many of those who learnt to ...
... poem was published , and the probability that a considerable portion of it was produced before the plan of the whole had been fully formed . This view of the Idylls as a single poem is objected to by many of those who learnt to ...
Page xvii
... poem , but it is not neces- sary to the unity of a poem that it should have a single hero : that in which unity more truly consists is the idea which informs the incidents and gives them life , rather than the personality of one ...
... poem , but it is not neces- sary to the unity of a poem that it should have a single hero : that in which unity more truly consists is the idea which informs the incidents and gives them life , rather than the personality of one ...
Page xviii
... poem . He admits the Quest for such as are capable of attaining the highest moral ideal , of losing themselves wholly to save themselves , for the Galahads and Percivales among his knights , but for the rest it will be waste of the ...
... poem . He admits the Quest for such as are capable of attaining the highest moral ideal , of losing themselves wholly to save themselves , for the Galahads and Percivales among his knights , but for the rest it will be waste of the ...
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