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... poetry of the plays , the first book , indeed , to recognize the poetry as a major element in the plays at all . Yet even Hazlitt thought of Shakespeare as ' mere poet ' , that is , as distinct from dramatic poet , inferior to Chaucer ...
... poetry of the plays , the first book , indeed , to recognize the poetry as a major element in the plays at all . Yet even Hazlitt thought of Shakespeare as ' mere poet ' , that is , as distinct from dramatic poet , inferior to Chaucer ...
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... poetry is the play , while a prose Hamlet , Othello , Lear , Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra , though conceivable , would be mere shadows of what they are , for the poetry is inseparable from the characters , the poetry is the ...
... poetry is the play , while a prose Hamlet , Othello , Lear , Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra , though conceivable , would be mere shadows of what they are , for the poetry is inseparable from the characters , the poetry is the ...
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... poetry there is , of course , no question of identity of stimulus and image , of the thing written about and the writing , but it is equally im- portant to remember that the poetry does not lie in the thing described , however beautiful ...
... poetry there is , of course , no question of identity of stimulus and image , of the thing written about and the writing , but it is equally im- portant to remember that the poetry does not lie in the thing described , however beautiful ...
Contents
Chapter Page | vii |
EARLY PLAYS AND POEMS | 53 |
SONNETS AND LYRICAL PLAYS | 74 |
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