Scribner's Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine for the People, Volume 4Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Scribner & Company; The Century Company, 1872 - American literature |
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... poetry . After this the metaphor is suddenly inverted , and the poetry alone is described , though in terms mixed of ... epic poetry by the dramatic standard , disparaging Milton's im- agination in comparison with Shakespeare's , because ...
... poetry . After this the metaphor is suddenly inverted , and the poetry alone is described , though in terms mixed of ... epic poetry by the dramatic standard , disparaging Milton's im- agination in comparison with Shakespeare's , because ...
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... Epic poetry puts a telescope into our hands and invites us to survey what it reveals afar , without losing conscious sight meantime of objects near at hand visible to the natural eye . We are not desired to forget that we live in a ...
... Epic poetry puts a telescope into our hands and invites us to survey what it reveals afar , without losing conscious sight meantime of objects near at hand visible to the natural eye . We are not desired to forget that we live in a ...
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... poets , both epic and tragic , the historians , the philosophers , the orators , of Greece - those masters among them , we mean , whose works remain the æsthetic despair of after - coming literary ar- tists in every race and every age ...
... poets , both epic and tragic , the historians , the philosophers , the orators , of Greece - those masters among them , we mean , whose works remain the æsthetic despair of after - coming literary ar- tists in every race and every age ...
Contents
AT HIS GATES Illustrated | 34 |
AFTER THE DARKNESS LIGHT | 44 |
DRAXY MILLERS DOWRY | 86 |
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