American Critical Essays: XIXth and XXth Centuries

action admirable Aeschylus aesthetic American appears Aristotle artist beauty Besant called Carlyle century character Chateaubriand cism consciousness Creusa criticism delight divine doubt drama effect element Emerson emotions English Essays ethical Euripides experience expression fact feeling fiction force genius George Sand George William Curtis Goethe Greek tragedy Hamlet happiness heart human ideal ideas imagination impressionism individual instinct intellectual interest Jane Austen Jules Lemaître kind less literary literature Mark Twain matter Matthew Arnold means melancholy ment mind modern mood moral nature ness never novel Oresteia passion perhaps philosophy play pleasure Poe's poem poet poetic poetry principle Prometheus race-mind reality reason religion romantic romanticism romanticists Rousseau Rousseauist seems sense sentiment Shakespeare social society Sophocles sort soul speak spirit story taste temperament theory thing thought tion tragic true truth whole words Wordsworth writing Xuthus