The Philosophy of ShakespeareKingsport Press, Incorporated, 1937 - 596 pages |
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... poet can hope to excel who is content to reflect a reflection , and to seek for nothing in nature which others have not found . " But there are beauties in Shakespeare not relative - powers that do not imitate , but create . He was ...
... poet can hope to excel who is content to reflect a reflection , and to seek for nothing in nature which others have not found . " But there are beauties in Shakespeare not relative - powers that do not imitate , but create . He was ...
Page 379
... poet the highest greatness we can imagine , with the lowest coarseness , without wit . " Lately , we read the following words , written a short time ago by an eminent dolt who is living : " Second - rate authors and inferior poets such ...
... poet the highest greatness we can imagine , with the lowest coarseness , without wit . " Lately , we read the following words , written a short time ago by an eminent dolt who is living : " Second - rate authors and inferior poets such ...
Page 479
... poet is for the people . " Pro populo poëta , " wrote Agrippa d ' Aubigné ; " All things to all men , " exclaimed Saint Paul . What is a mind ? A feeder of souls . The poet is at the same time a menace and a promise . The anxiety with ...
... poet is for the people . " Pro populo poëta , " wrote Agrippa d ' Aubigné ; " All things to all men , " exclaimed Saint Paul . What is a mind ? A feeder of souls . The poet is at the same time a menace and a promise . The anxiety with ...
Contents
PART II | 375 |
ZOILUS AS ETERNAL AS HOMER | 417 |
CRITICISM | 435 |
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