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Page 81
... sure , run through Arnold's verse , his expression of it fails to reflect , very closely or strikingly , the utterance of Homer . But per- haps the very pervasiveness of pathos as a mood in Arnold's poetry leads , inevitably , to a ...
... sure , run through Arnold's verse , his expression of it fails to reflect , very closely or strikingly , the utterance of Homer . But per- haps the very pervasiveness of pathos as a mood in Arnold's poetry leads , inevitably , to a ...
Page 98
... sure that Arnold was more concerned with the power of virtue " to remove those living in this life from the state of misery , and lead them to the state of felicity " than he was with its relation to the state of souls after death . And ...
... sure that Arnold was more concerned with the power of virtue " to remove those living in this life from the state of misery , and lead them to the state of felicity " than he was with its relation to the state of souls after death . And ...
Page 196
... sure , but still unmistakably ; and to these other poems we must now look . The Voice , for example , contains an elaborate simile of which the following lines are a part ; and it is interesting to compare the words " the flower they ...
... sure , but still unmistakably ; and to these other poems we must now look . The Voice , for example , contains an elaborate simile of which the following lines are a part ; and it is interesting to compare the words " the flower they ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE Introduction | 13 |
The Pathos of Young Death | 34 |
The Manifold Sorrow of Man | 52 |
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