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Excerpt from The Poets' New EnglandMoreover, to speak merely of a rock-bound coast is to give but a meager idea of the scenery of a shore whose rocks have been fashioned by the forces of nature, now into lofty cliffs rent by chasms, within whose depths the ocean lets loose its loudest thunders, now into a chaos of jagged bowlders, or again into huge, symmetrical blocks over which one may walk, provided an alert eye be kept for an occasional co...

Excerpt from Ancient Myths in Modern Poets Among ancient classical myths there is not one which makes a stronger appeal to the imagination than the myth of Prometheus. This is not strange, for it contains within it the seeds of all human development. Revolt against autocratic power, service and suffering in the cause of humanity, the gift of fire - what are these but the tools wherewith human aspiration works for social and artistic progress!...

Excerpt from A Guide to MythologyMy aim in this book on Mythology for young readers has been to give them solid knowledge on the subject, as far as it is advisable to go with im mature minds, based upon the most recent investiga tions of scholars, and to select the myths used in illustration of the plan, with a View to giving them interesting stories to read, which will, almost uncon sciously to themselves, lay a firm foundation for the fascin...

Excerpt from Browning's England: A Study of English Influences in Browning To any one casually trying to recall what England has given Robert Browning by way of direct poetical inspiration, it is more than likely that the little poem about Shelley, "Memorabilia" would at once occur: "Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you And did you speak to him again? How strange it seems and new! "But you were living before...

Excerpt from Browning and His Century Such a momentous decision as this in the history of thought has not been reached without a long and protracted struggle extend ing back into the early days of Christianity, nor, it may be said, is the harmony as yet complete, for there are to-day, and perhaps always will be, human beings whose conscious ness is not fully orbed and who either seek their point of equilibrium too entirely in the plane of min...

Excerpt from Browning's Italy: A Study of Italian Life and Art in BrowningThis poem, with its beautiful apostrophe to his dead wife, his Lyric Love, half angel and half bird, and its marvelous insight into the most exalted heights of a woman's soul as portrayed in Pompilia, is a superb monument to her of whom enamored was his soul, as he elsewhere expresses his abiding devotion to her.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of th...

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