The Story of Our Literature: An Interpretation of the American SpiritCharles Scribner's Sons, 1923 - 399 pages |
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... lyrical quality . A delicate vein of humor pervades his elegy " On a Honey Bee , " addressed to a bee that essayed to sip from a glass of wine and was drowned therein . The same spirit character- izes the lines " To a Catydid " : In a ...
... lyrical quality . A delicate vein of humor pervades his elegy " On a Honey Bee , " addressed to a bee that essayed to sip from a glass of wine and was drowned therein . The same spirit character- izes the lines " To a Catydid " : In a ...
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... elevation . " Thanatopsis " and the best of his lyrical poems have won their place in our literature and are des- tined to endure . CHAPTER IV AN ADVENTURE IN PHILOSOPHY Transcendentalism — The Dial 74 THE STORY OF OUR LITERATURE.
... elevation . " Thanatopsis " and the best of his lyrical poems have won their place in our literature and are des- tined to endure . CHAPTER IV AN ADVENTURE IN PHILOSOPHY Transcendentalism — The Dial 74 THE STORY OF OUR LITERATURE.
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... lyrical quality is also evident in " Laus Deo , " his hymn of exultation over the abolition of slavery . When such poems as these or his " Massachusetts to Virginia " are compared with Longfellow's conventional protests against slavery ...
... lyrical quality is also evident in " Laus Deo , " his hymn of exultation over the abolition of slavery . When such poems as these or his " Massachusetts to Virginia " are compared with Longfellow's conventional protests against slavery ...
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... lyrical intensity , a compelling love of freedom , and a genuine idyllic quality that insure his position among the greater American poets . James Russell Lowell ( 1819-1891 ) 19. An Independent Scholar . James Russell Lowell , the ...
... lyrical intensity , a compelling love of freedom , and a genuine idyllic quality that insure his position among the greater American poets . James Russell Lowell ( 1819-1891 ) 19. An Independent Scholar . James Russell Lowell , the ...
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... the weird winds of morning sigh no more . His lyrical gift is evident in the fine opening stanza of the poem " In Harbor , " which he wrote shortly before his death : I think it is over , over , I think 172 THE STORY OF OUR LITERATURE.
... the weird winds of morning sigh no more . His lyrical gift is evident in the fine opening stanza of the poem " In Harbor , " which he wrote shortly before his death : I think it is over , over , I think 172 THE STORY OF OUR LITERATURE.
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