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Excerpt from Selections From Five English Poets: Edited With Introduction and NotesWhen a poem is read aloud it is easy to realize that poetry is closely related to music. Like music it awakens vague, mysterious feelings which cannot be expressed in ordinary speech and the person who fails to catch the subtle melody of a poem gets but little from it even though he understands perfectly the mean ing of the words. To illustrate this, put into co...
Excerpt from Britomart: Selections From Spenser's Faery Queen Books III, IV and VA spirit of inquiry in regard to natural phenomena was abroad in Elizabeth's time. The Copernican sys tem was revolutionizing men's ideas in regard to the relations of the heavenly bodies, and, before many years, Francis Bacon was to give to the study of natural science an impulse such as it had never before received in England.About the PublisherForgotten Books p...
Mary Elizabeth Litchfield (1854-1932) aimed "to write a story simple enough for children, but not so simple as to be uninteresting to older persons [because] Viktor Rydberg's (1828-1895) researches have made it possible, for the first time, for one to form a definite conception of the cosmography of the mythology, and also because he clears away many inconsistencies that have long clung to it.
Excerpt from Britomart: Selections From Spenser's Faery Queen Books III, IV and VA spirit of inquiry in regard to natural phenomena was abroad in Elizabeth's time. The Copernican sys tem was revolutionizing men's ideas in regard to the relations of the heavenly bodies, and, before many years, Francis Bacon was to give to the study of natural science an impulse such as it had never before received in England.About the PublisherForgotten Books p...
Excerpt from Selections From Five English Poets: Edited With Introduction and Notes
When a poem is read aloud it is easy to realize that poetry is closely related to music. Like music it awakens vague, mysterious feelings which cannot be expressed in ordinary speech, and the person who fails to catch the subtle melody of a poem gets but little from it even though he understands perfectly the meaning of the words. To illustrate this, put into ...
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