Therefore, about the year 1590, the nation was practically without a great poem.
In the year 1590, if ever, this country, in respect of its literary condition and in respect of its general high and noble excitement, was ready for the reception of a great poem.
It is literature, poetry, and, in particular, as will soon appear more definitely, a great poem to take its place among the great poems of the world.
A great poem is for ages and ages in common, and for all degrees and complexions, and all departments and sects, and for a woman as much as a man, and a man as much as a woman.
A great poem is no finish to a man or woman, but rather a beginning.
We are told that he proposed to devote the years that might remain to him after the completion of the Aeneid to the further study of philosophy, perhaps with the view of writing a great poem, which might rival and answer Lucretius.
Could that well be the world of what we call emphatically a 'great poem'?
He knew too well what he was going to express in the Second Part, and with all its wisdom and beauty it is scarcely a great poem.
Yet The Congo is a great poem, possessing as it does many of the high qualities of true poetry.
Every one who reads The Congo or who hears it read cannot help enjoying it; which is one reason why so many are afraid to call it a great poem.
It will remain a great poem when we have ceased pulling it about to find what is inside or search out texts for homilies in defence of our own particular views of life.
But did the Boroughmonger ever produce a Great Poem?
And dare we say, after that, that Campbell has never written a Great Poem?
That is a true image; but is "The Pelican Island" a Great Poem?
In Cambridge there is preserved a notebook of Milton's containing a list of nearly one hundred subjects[167] for a great poem, selected while he was a boy at the university.
In imitation of Dante's Inferno, Sackville formed the design of a great poem called The Mirror for Magistrates.
This masterpiece of Blair's genius is not a great poem so much as it is a magnificent portion, fragment, or book of a great poem.
The SEA still lies over, after all written in prose or rhyme regarding it, as the subject for a great poem; and it will task all the energies of even the truest poet.
A great poem is for ages and ages, in common, and for all degrees and complexions, and all departments and sects, and for a woman as much as a man, and a man as much as a woman.
Burns's Vision of Liberty contains, in the space of thirty-two lines, we hesitate not to say, all the elements of a great poem.
Pollok's Course of Time is a large and a clever, but scarcely a great poem.
It may, perhaps, be objected, besides, that Delta has left no large or great poem.
Surely we must be reminded of Milton's great poem when we read how Satan, ruined and cast into hell, speaks to his comrades, lost with him.
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