Poems, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. From the last Lond. ed., corrected by the author.
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781425523268
Subjects: American history; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; United States - General; History / United States / General
First sentence: The poem commences by remarking the desire, natural to the mind, of investigating its own qualitiesqualities the more exalted, as their development has seldom been impeded by external circumstancesThe various dispositions of different minds are next considered, and are compared to the varieties of scenic nature: inequalities in the spiritual not being more wonderful than inequalities in the naturalByron and Campbell contrastedThe varieties of genius having been thus treated, the art of criticism is briefly alluded to, as generally independent of genius, butt always useful to its productionsJeffreyThe various stages of life in which genius appears, and the different causes by which its influence is discoveredCowley, AlfieriAllusion to the story of the emotion of Thucydidos on hearing Herodotus recite his History at the Olympic GamesThe elements of Mind are thus arranged, Invention, Judgment, Memory, and AssociationThe creations of mind are next noticed, among which we first behold PhilosophyHistory, Science, and Metaphysics, are included in the studies of Philosophy.