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...plays of Victor Hugo are good only by reason of their form,- their lyric quality, in "Hernani" and "Ruy Blas,"- their epic character in the "Burgraves," which was a forerunner of "La Legende des Siecles...
...prologue of Nekrasov's well known epic, "Who Lives Happily in Russia," is translated into a striking form of blank verse by Leo Wiener. The work has been revised by Dr. A. C. Coolidge and is notable as being the first complete translation of the Prologue...
...prose pieces the two which impress the reader the most are "The Yielding of Luke Armstrong," by J. A. Macy, and a consideration of "The Epic Value of Scenes in Stevenson's Writings," by F. L. Waldo. The former is a well writen and cleverly told story. The writer deals with a comparatively hackneyed subject in an interesting way. Although in one or two places he is a trifle unreal, as a whole the story is successful and readable. The consideration of Stevenson's work deals with the striking characteristic of that author,- his vividness of style. As the author...
...have proceeded from no other pen than Shakespeare's." On equally strong grounds we might pronounce him the author of that concise epic, Humpty Dumpty...
...lectures delivered in 1892 on the Percy Turnbull Memorial Foundation in the Johns Hopkins University. They are printed as they were delivered, with the exception of a few slight changes. The subjects taken up are the distinctive qualities of the Greek race as expressed by Homer, Greek poetry, both epic and lyric, the Attic drama, and the permanent power of Greek poetry. A separate lecture is also devoted to a discussion of Pindar's style and his relation to epic and lyric poetry...