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The grammatical forms which express the moods of time, and the difference of persons, and the distinction of place, are convertible with respect to the highest poetry without injuring it as poetry; and the choruses of Aschylus, and the book of Job, and Dante's Paradise, would afford, more than any other writings, examples of this fact, if the limits of this essay did not forbid citation.
Ritchie, Miss Anna Swanwick, the translator of Aschylus, and other good company, besides that of my entertainer. One of my very agreeable experiences was a call from a gentleman with whom I had corresponded, but whom I had never met. This was Mr.
Compare them with the great writers of other ages; and we feel instinctively that, in spite of their surroundings, they have far more of vital kindred with Homer or the creators of the mediaval epic, than with the Greek dramatists Aschylus excepted or with Dante or with Goethe.
The awful picture of this demoniac is either painted from life, or it is one of the most wonderful feats of the poetic imagination. Nothing more terrible, vivid, penetrating, and real was ever conceived by the greatest creative genius. If it is not simply a portrait, Aschylus or Dante might own the artist for a brother.
You may build yourself any philosophy or any creed you please, but you will never get away from the world-fact the death-grapple of the soul with circumstance. Aschylus has one creed, and Milton has another, and Shelley has a third; but always it is the death-grapple.
There have been one or two great poets who might conceivably have risen to the height of putting such words under such circumstances into the mouths of creatures of their own imagination. Analogous instances of the utmost simplicity of expression in moments of intense feeling may be quoted from Aschylus or Shakespeare, and are regarded as the high-water marks of genius.
Russian dancing, Greek dancing, Swiss dancing, American dancing, everything is set to a dance in Paris: Beethoven's symphonies, the tragedies of Aschylus, the Clavecin bien Tempere, the antiques of the Vatican, Orpheus, Tristan, the Passion, and gymnastics. These people are suffering from vertigo.
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