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... interesting and suggestive than this obvious answer . Of these the first seems to lie in Arnold's weakness in reasoning on a high level of abstrac- tion ; a weakness which appears to have necessitated , as a sort of mental crutch , the ...
... interesting and suggestive than this obvious answer . Of these the first seems to lie in Arnold's weakness in reasoning on a high level of abstrac- tion ; a weakness which appears to have necessitated , as a sort of mental crutch , the ...
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... interesting contrast to the third touchstone passage - the words of Achilles to Priam . Of the Homeric line the powers of potential allusion were impressive ; yet nowhere in Arnold's verse was the state of mind which it reveals very ...
... interesting contrast to the third touchstone passage - the words of Achilles to Priam . Of the Homeric line the powers of potential allusion were impressive ; yet nowhere in Arnold's verse was the state of mind which it reveals very ...
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... interesting and sugges- tive theory has been advanced by Professor Oscar James Camp- bell of Columbia.1 This theory - to which I subscribe - is simply that Hamlet was the victim of an emotional disturbance known as " mel- ancholy " ; an ...
... interesting and sugges- tive theory has been advanced by Professor Oscar James Camp- bell of Columbia.1 This theory - to which I subscribe - is simply that Hamlet was the victim of an emotional disturbance known as " mel- ancholy " ; an ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE Introduction | 13 |
The Pathos of Young Death | 34 |
The Manifold Sorrow of Man | 52 |
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