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The works of this scholar, poet, dramatist, travel writer, political activist, and soldier who died in the Great War at the age of 27. ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:Chapter III THE ELIZABETHAN DRAMA There are many ways of considering a subject like the Elizabethan drama. You can take the plays by authors. Naturally, it is one of the best ways; and it is the only way that was employed up to quite recently. To use that method alone leads to queer blindnesses. And it is apt to end in the "our Shakespeare" business, an easy and unprofitable way of taking art.Then there is division by subjects, the method of Professor Schelling and of Polonius. This counteracts the evils of the first way; but it is often rather unmeaning: Measure for Measure gets grouped with the "Romantic Comedies." That is to say, the fault is in the unreality of the classes. They should rather be grouped by taste. An arrangement under purely fanciful names would be more practical. Love's Labour Lost would go with Lyly under "Court Butterfly"; Measure for Measure might jostle The Fawn or Hamlet in the "Brass-on-Tongue" sub-division of the "Leaves-a-Taste-in-the-Mouth" group.And there is the reader's way, Lamb's way, of just picking out the best plays. It has a lot to be said for it.All three methods, and others, have their com- plemental merits. But I think the most useful way of surveying material like this is by a combination, in the following way. One should divide the plays, roughly chronologically, according to their style or taste, the general Stimmung of them, with a certain reference to authorship, and distinct emphasis on the merits and possibilities of the various styles. For though, of course, when you stop to consider any particular part, these questions of influence, "schools," styles, periods, and the rest, immediately sink into their proper subordination, yet, for a rapid survey, they do correspond to certain realities. It is important to know that... ... Read more

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Publisher: Toronto McClelland, Goodchild, StewartPublication date: 1916Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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John Webster the Elizabethan Drama-- THIS book was written in 1911-12, and was the dissertation with which the author won his Fellowship at Icings College, Cambridge, in 1913. The page references are to Dyceys one- volume edition. E. Al. Preface I HAVE ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:KindlinessWHEN love has changed to kindliness— Oh, love, our hungry lips, that press So tight that Time's an old god's dream Nodding in heaven, and whisper stuff Seven million years were not enough To think on after, make it seem Less than the breath of children playing, A blasphemy scarce worth the saying, A sorry jest, " When love has grown To kindliness—to kindliness ! " . . . And yet—the best that cither's known Will change, and wither, and be less, At last, than comfort, or its own Remembrance. And when some caress Tendered in habit (once a flame All heaven sang out to) wakes the shame Unworded, in the steady eyes We'll have,—that day, what shall we do ? Being so noble, kill the two Who've reached their second-best ? Being wise, Break cleanly off, and get away, Follow down other windier skies New lures, alone ? Or shall we stay, Since this is all we've known, content In the lean twilight of such day, And not remember, not lament f That time when all is over, and Hand never flinches, brushing hand ; And blood lies quiet, for all you're near ; And it's but spoken words we hear, Where trumpets sang ; when the mere skies Are stranger and nobler than your eyes ; And flesh is flesh, was flame before ; And infinite hungers leap no more In the chance swaying of your dress ; And love has changed to kindliness. The VoiceSAFE in the magic of my woods I lay, and watched the dying light. Faint in the pale high solitudes, And washed with rain and veiled by night, Silver and blue and green were showing.And the dark woods grew darker still; And birds were hushed ; and peace was growing;And quietness crept up the hill;And no wind was blowing . . .And I knewThat this was the hour of knowing, And the night and the woods and you Were one together, and I sh... ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.Excerpt from book:HeavenFish (fly-replete, in depth of June,Dawdling away their wat'ry noon)Ponder deep wisdom, dark or clear,Each secret fishy hope or fear.Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond ;But is there anything Beyond ?This life cannot be All, they swear,For how unpleasant, if it were !One may not doubt that, somehow, GoodShall come of Water and of Mud ;And, sure, the reverent eye must seeA Purpose in Liquidity.We darkly know, by Faith we cry,The future is not Wholly Dry.Mud unto mud !—Death eddies near—Not here the appointed End, not here !But somewhere, beyond Space and Time,Is wetter water, slimier slime !And there (they trust) there swimmeth OneWho swam ere rivers were begun,Immense, of fishy form and mind,Squamous, omnipotent, and kind ;And under that Almighty Fin,The littlest fish may enter in.Oh ! never fly conceals a hook,Fish say, in the Eternal Brook,But more than mundane weeds are there,And mud, celestially fair ;Fat caterpillars drift around, And Paradisal grubs are found ; Unfading moths, immortal flies, And the worm that never dies. And in that Heaven of all their wish, There shall be no more land, say fish. DOUBTSWhen she sleeps, her soul, I know, Goes a wanderer on the air, Wings where I may never go, Leaves her lying, still and fair, Waiting, empty, laid aside, Like a dress upon a chair. . . . This I know, and yet I know Doubts that will not be denied. For if the soul be not in place, What has laid trouble in her face ? And, sits there nothing ware and wise Behind the curtains of her eyes, What is it, in the self's eclipse, Shadows, soft and passingly, About the corners of her lips, The smile that is essential she ? And if the spirit be not there, Why is fragrance in the hair ... ... Read more

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Introduction i Rupert Brooke was both fair to see and winning in his ways. There was at the first contact both bloom and charm; and most of all there was life. To use the word his friends describe him by, he was "vivid." This vitality, though manifold in expression, is felt primarily in his sensations-surprise mingled with delight- "One after one, like tasting a sweet food." This is life's "first fine rapture." It makes him patient to name over those myriad things (each of which seems like a fresh discovery) curious but potent, and above all common, that he "loved,"- he the "Great Lover." Lover of what, then? Why, of "White plates anJ cups clean-gleaming, Ringed with blue lines,"- and the like, through thirty lines of exquisite words; and he is captivated by the multiple brevity of these vignettes of sense, keen, momentary, ecstatic with the morning dip of youth in the wonderful stream. The poem is a catalogue of vital sensations 3

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