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But to show how the two plays can also testify to the growth of the poet's mind , I will select - although the former two would have been apt enough - two other elements common to both ; the first shall be the treatment of love .
But to show how the two plays can also testify to the growth of the poet's mind , I will select - although the former two would have been apt enough - two other elements common to both ; the first shall be the treatment of love .
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Fancy's images , however ingeniously the poet may localise them and turn them to shapes , are but airy nothing . " So in The Tempest , the spirits summoned to enact the magician's fancies are but air , and into thin air they vanish ...
Fancy's images , however ingeniously the poet may localise them and turn them to shapes , are but airy nothing . " So in The Tempest , the spirits summoned to enact the magician's fancies are but air , and into thin air they vanish ...
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But Shakespeare's Ariel is unique in this also , that he assumes the functions of all Heywood's four classes of spirits ; and the poet's own description , “ Ariell , an ayrie Spirit , ” must lead us to suppose first that Ariel is ...
But Shakespeare's Ariel is unique in this also , that he assumes the functions of all Heywood's four classes of spirits ; and the poet's own description , “ Ariell , an ayrie Spirit , ” must lead us to suppose first that Ariel is ...
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | ix |
a As a Work of Art | xxviii |
ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE TEMPEST | 149 |
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