Essays ÆstheticalGood Press, 2019 M12 9 - 213 pages This is a collection of essays that delve into the beauty, poetry, style, criticism, and usefulness of art. The book includes discussions on renowned figures such as Dante, Sainte-Beuve, and Thomas Carlyle, and explores the national drama and the role of art in society. |
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action admiration æsthetic Anglo-America Apollo Belvedere artist beautiful breadth Canto Carlyle Coleridge Contents Return Coriolanus creative critic Dante deep delight Divina Commedia divine dramatic elevation embodied emotion English epic exaltation eyes faculties feeling feminine rhymes Fonthill Abbeys Francis Cook French French poetry fresh genius gift give glow Goethe heart Hence higher highest human ideal illuminated implies Inferno insight intellectual Italian kindled light lines literary literature live mental Milton mind mold Molière moral nature paper Paradise Lost passages passionate phrases poem poet poetic imagination poetry present prosaic prose Purgatorio qualities reader refined Return to Table rhymes Sainte-Beuve scene sense sensibility sentence sentiment Shakespeare shine soul sparkle speech spiritual stanza style sublime syllables sympathy Table of Contents terza rima thence things Thomas Carlyle thou thought translation truth utterance verse Victor Hirtzler Voltaire words Wordsworth write