Showing all 2 books
Aristotle's approach to tragedy is based on a realization of the significance of its emotional impact on the spectator. But this impact cannot be studied through an exclusive concentration on the feelings of pity and fear. Tragedy deals with unpleasant emotions and their power to move us depends on the nature of the people involved in dramatic action, the intensity of their feelings and their social situation. The four great tragedies of Shakespeare stand in a ...
The present book studies the growth and development of the pre-Raphaelite movement in painting and a similar movement in poetry and the close relation of these with the poetry of Keats. It studies the salient characteristics of the movement in painting and traces these in the poetry of the Rossettis, Morris and Swinburne. Their poetry is not all attributable to the influence of painting on poetry from that of poetry on painting. All the similarities, between the ...