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Saintsbury's The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory. Weston's The Romance Cycle of Charlemagne and his Peers. Weston's King Arthur and his Knights. Maynadier's The Arthur of the English Poets. Nutt's The Legends of the Holy Grail. Jusserand's Piers Plowman. Warren's Langland's Vision of Piers the Plowman, Done into Modern Prose. Savage's Old English Libraries.
Saintsbury's A History of English Literature in the Nineteenth Century. Kennedy's English Literature, 1880-1905. Walker's Greater Victorian Poets. Brownell's Victorian Prose Masters. Payne's The Greater English Poets of the Nineteenth Century. Perry's A Study of Prose Fiction. Benson's Rossetti. Noyes's William Morris. Trevelyan's Life and Letters of Macaulay. Morrison's Macaulay. Barry's Newman.
The orchestral poem of Pelléas et Mélisande I have yet to enjoy or execrate; there seems to be no middle term for Schoenberg's amazing art. If I say I hate or like it that is only a personal expression, not a criticism standing foursquare. I fear I subscribe to the truth of Mr. Saintsbury's epigram. It may be considered singular that the most original "new" music hails from Austria, not Germany.
Saintsbury's party with rapid paces, each of which Mrs. Pasmer commentated with inward conjecture. "Is he bringing the flowers to Alice? Isn't it altogether too conspicuous? Has he really the right to do it? What will people think? Will he give them to me for her, or will he hand them directly to her? Which should I prefer him to do? I wonder if I know?"
Saintsbury's book a writer who has dealt with all the perturbing influences of our century in a manner as classical, as idiomatic, as easy and elegant, as Steele's: "I wish you to observe," says Cardinal Newman, "that the mere dealer in words cares little or nothing for the subject which he is embellishing, but can paint and gild anything whatever to order; whereas the artist, whom I am acknowledging, has his great or rich visions before him, and his only aim is to bring out what he thinks or what he feels in a way adequate to the thing spoken of, and appropriate to the speaker."
Hundreds of metricists admire and envy Professor Saintsbury's ear for prose and verse rhythms while disagreeing wholly with his dogmatic theories of the "foot," and his system of notation. There are sure to be some days and hours when the reader of poetry will find himself bored and tired with the effort of attention to the technique of verse.
Mr. The essential difference between poetry and prose "that other beauty of prose" in the words of the motto he has chosen from Dryden, the first master of the sort of prose he prefers: that is Mr. Saintsbury's burden. Great poetry and great prose, it might be found, have most of their qualities in common.
LITERATURE. Saintsbury's History of Elizabethan Literature; Whipple's Literature of the Age of Elizabeth; S. Lee's Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth Century; Schilling's Elizabethan Lyrics, in Athenæum Press Series; Vernon Lee's Euphorion. Spenser. The Drama.
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