Hugh MacDiarmid's Epic PoetryEdinburgh University Press, 1991 - 235 pages A collection of Hugh McDiarmid's poetry |
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Page 95
... Aeschylus nor Dante could fill . The plentitude of language forms is set against the silence language cannot enter . Against this he sets Goethe's ... although men be stricken dumb in woe / A God did grant me words to tell my sorrow ...
... Aeschylus nor Dante could fill . The plentitude of language forms is set against the silence language cannot enter . Against this he sets Goethe's ... although men be stricken dumb in woe / A God did grant me words to tell my sorrow ...
Page 194
... Aeschylus , when the Herald Called out , ' Theognis , bring your chorus forward . ' Imagine what my feelings must ... Aeschylus ' and we might recall those other lines in " The Kind of Poetry I Want ' : As Aeschylus in his new drama Gave ...
... Aeschylus , when the Herald Called out , ' Theognis , bring your chorus forward . ' Imagine what my feelings must ... Aeschylus ' and we might recall those other lines in " The Kind of Poetry I Want ' : As Aeschylus in his new drama Gave ...
Page 195
... Aeschylus in a way that Dicaeopolis does not . - ― - What is this sense of the heroic ? Discussing the question , Lionel Trilling quoted Margaret Bieber , who , in her book on Greek theatre , said that the hero is primarily an actor ...
... Aeschylus in a way that Dicaeopolis does not . - ― - What is this sense of the heroic ? Discussing the question , Lionel Trilling quoted Margaret Bieber , who , in her book on Greek theatre , said that the hero is primarily an actor ...
Contents
Hugh MacDiarmids Epic Poetry | 1 |
In Memoriam James Joyce | 59 |
The First Person | 158 |
Copyright | |
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