Interpretations of Literature, Volume 2Dodd, Mead, 1915 Lectures to his students while he "held the chair of English literature in the University of Tokyo from 1896 to 1902"--Confer Introduction. |
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... LONGFELLOW • · . 167 XI THE HAVAMAL : OLD NORTHERN ETHICS OF LIFE XII BEYOND MAN . 200 • XIV SOME POEMS ABOUT INSECTS XIII ON TREE SPIRITS IN WESTERN POETRY XV ON BIRDS IN ENGLISH POETRY · • 220 228 · 238 . 272 XVI POEMS ON NIGHT , THE ...
... LONGFELLOW • · . 167 XI THE HAVAMAL : OLD NORTHERN ETHICS OF LIFE XII BEYOND MAN . 200 • XIV SOME POEMS ABOUT INSECTS XIII ON TREE SPIRITS IN WESTERN POETRY XV ON BIRDS IN ENGLISH POETRY · • 220 228 · 238 . 272 XVI POEMS ON NIGHT , THE ...
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... place in nineteenth century literature , and that have affected and improved the best work of the generations after him both in prose and in verse . CHAPTER X ON A PROPER ESTIMATE OF LONGFELLOW WITHIN the 166 POE'S VERSE.
... place in nineteenth century literature , and that have affected and improved the best work of the generations after him both in prose and in verse . CHAPTER X ON A PROPER ESTIMATE OF LONGFELLOW WITHIN the 166 POE'S VERSE.
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... Longfellow's hexameters were faulty , young scholars set the fashion of sneering at Longfellow . This fashion has now become rather general ; and I want to pro- test against it . Some of its utterances have been quite un- reasonable ...
... Longfellow's hexameters were faulty , young scholars set the fashion of sneering at Longfellow . This fashion has now become rather general ; and I want to pro- test against it . Some of its utterances have been quite un- reasonable ...
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... Longfellow should have been for a moment despised . Of all the poets of the age , none was so completely romantic as Longfellow , so ideal , so fond of the spiritual and the impossible . He is the most dreaming of dreamers , the least ...
... Longfellow should have been for a moment despised . Of all the poets of the age , none was so completely romantic as Longfellow , so ideal , so fond of the spiritual and the impossible . He is the most dreaming of dreamers , the least ...
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... Longfellow when you were a boy ? " If he says " No , " then it is no use to talk to him on the subject of poetry at all , however much he might be able to tell you about quantities and metres . Notice particularly this fact about Longfellow ...
... Longfellow when you were a boy ? " If he says " No , " then it is no use to talk to him on the subject of poetry at all , however much he might be able to tell you about quantities and metres . Notice particularly this fact about Longfellow ...
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