Excerpt from The Largeness of the Imagery in the Deutero-IsaiahThe poetry of the deutero-isaiah exhibits a small number of great images and a great number of small ones. The large figures, moreover, are fewer and the lesser more numerous than at first Sight appears. For, on the one hand, in many verses study reveals in almost every word a picture previously unseen, and, on the other hand, what look to the casual reader like independent metaphors loosely succeeding one another Often prove to be parts of one extended or compound piece of imagery, constituting a single tableau.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.