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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... poet , and produced immediately the finest poetry of the period . Before that astonishing talent all opposition ... poets must work for half a lifetime to ob- tain , -literary recognition . This was followed the next year by the poem ...
... poet , and produced immediately the finest poetry of the period . Before that astonishing talent all opposition ... poets must work for half a lifetime to ob- tain , -literary recognition . This was followed the next year by the poem ...
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... poet got his inspiration from such and such a story , and look at the story , and find in it almost nothing in the least resembling the poem , then you can understand what inspiration means . It does not mean that a man borrows ideas ...
... poet got his inspiration from such and such a story , and look at the story , and find in it almost nothing in the least resembling the poem , then you can understand what inspiration means . It does not mean that a man borrows ideas ...
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... poet would dare to make . The style and the lan- guage of Shakespeare are the least important part of his creations , while in the other poets they form the most impor- tant part . The man of genius can afford to write as badly . as he ...
... poet would dare to make . The style and the lan- guage of Shakespeare are the least important part of his creations , while in the other poets they form the most impor- tant part . The man of genius can afford to write as badly . as he ...
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... poet , much more than because he imitated the beauties of the antique writers , he was able to influence Eng- lish prose for considerably more than two hundred years . Indeed , I think we may say that his ' influence still continues ...
... poet , much more than because he imitated the beauties of the antique writers , he was able to influence Eng- lish prose for considerably more than two hundred years . Indeed , I think we may say that his ' influence still continues ...
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... poet emphatically implieth the total de- struction in this kind of death , which happened to Ajax Oileus . So on , page after page crammed with facts and com- ments . He mentions even the Chinese burial customs- so little known to ...
... poet emphatically implieth the total de- struction in this kind of death , which happened to Ajax Oileus . So on , page after page crammed with facts and com- ments . He mentions even the Chinese burial customs- so little known to ...
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Page 318 - The sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits ; — on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone ; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Page 124 - TO HELEN Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
Page 272 - HE clasps the crag with crooked hands ; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls ; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Page 238 - Philomel, with melody Sing in our sweet lullaby; Lulla, lulla, lullaby ; lulla, lulla, lullaby ; Never harm, nor spell nor charm, Come our lovely lady nigh; So, good night, with lullaby.
Page 126 - Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 238 - Everything did banish moan, Save the nightingale alone: She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Lean'd her breast up-till a thorn, And there sung the dolefull'st ditty, That to hear it was great pity. 'Fie, fie, fie...
Page 252 - When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo...
Page 127 - Oh, from out the sounding cells, What a gush of euphony voluminously wells! How it swells! How it dwells On the Future!
Page 302 - I sighed for thee ; When light rode high, and the dew was gone, And noon lay heavy on flower and tree, And the weary Day turned to his rest, Lingering like an unloved guest, I sighed for thee. Thy brother Death came, and cried,
Page 124 - Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo! in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand! Ah, Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land!