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Page vii
... passion and feeling that is here celebrated , as opposed to the outward world of sequence in time . It is the individual singer , dignified by the sincerity and potency of his art , that unfolds his own moods and emotions to our ...
... passion and feeling that is here celebrated , as opposed to the outward world of sequence in time . It is the individual singer , dignified by the sincerity and potency of his art , that unfolds his own moods and emotions to our ...
Page viii
... passion and the wings of song . Be this as it may , the lyric element of poetry is assuredly the most subtile and the most difficult of approach ; it is the last element mastered — if mastered it ever is by those whom we commonly ...
... passion and the wings of song . Be this as it may , the lyric element of poetry is assuredly the most subtile and the most difficult of approach ; it is the last element mastered — if mastered it ever is by those whom we commonly ...
Page x
... passion and emotion , combined with a con- summate mastery of form and of the music of speech , it is but natural that all literatures should display the lyric amongst the latest of literary growths . Despite what must be ad- mitted as ...
... passion and emotion , combined with a con- summate mastery of form and of the music of speech , it is but natural that all literatures should display the lyric amongst the latest of literary growths . Despite what must be ad- mitted as ...
Page xv
... passion of Sidney . In Sidney is struck , for the first time unmistakably , that individual note , that intense and passionate cry of the poet's very heart , that was thenceforth to be the distinctive mark of the great literature of ...
... passion of Sidney . In Sidney is struck , for the first time unmistakably , that individual note , that intense and passionate cry of the poet's very heart , that was thenceforth to be the distinctive mark of the great literature of ...
Page xvi
... passionate delight in beauty " which forms the " inspiring motive " of all the renaissance poets . In the words of ... passion for conceits , and wit , and clever caprices and playing upon words . With this it is harder and perhaps not ...
... passionate delight in beauty " which forms the " inspiring motive " of all the renaissance poets . In the words of ... passion for conceits , and wit , and clever caprices and playing upon words . With this it is harder and perhaps not ...
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