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... story from being no more than an accumulation of horrors . I say the ' story ' , but the poetry is another matter . It swells and subsides with considerable power . Titus sometimes pretends to be mad , like Hamlet , or perhaps he is mad ...
... story from being no more than an accumulation of horrors . I say the ' story ' , but the poetry is another matter . It swells and subsides with considerable power . Titus sometimes pretends to be mad , like Hamlet , or perhaps he is mad ...
Page 95
... story , of the good which he is opposing . There is somewhere contained in this scene all the mystery of evil ; for evil is innately mysterious , as good is not . Shelley , in his Defence of Poetry , has an apt passage : Even crime is ...
... story , of the good which he is opposing . There is somewhere contained in this scene all the mystery of evil ; for evil is innately mysterious , as good is not . Shelley , in his Defence of Poetry , has an apt passage : Even crime is ...
Page 147
... story has an early analogy in that of Cassius in Julius Caesar , who moves from a doubtfully approved plotter to a fine death , his story at its close being graced by love ( page 62 above ) . Coriolanus shows a tragic rise of importance ...
... story has an early analogy in that of Cassius in Julius Caesar , who moves from a doubtfully approved plotter to a fine death , his story at its close being graced by love ( page 62 above ) . Coriolanus shows a tragic rise of importance ...
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