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The New Spirit / Third Edition

Chapter 26: THE CANTERBURY POETS.
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The author traces a recurrent new spirit in modern culture by examining several major creative figures in individual essays, treating their personal genius, aesthetic methods, and moral implications. He reads each as an embodiment of renewed individuality and sensory synthesis, linking literature, drama, and visual arts, and considers how their temperaments mediate religion and social life. Separate chapters set out close readings of Diderot, Heine, Whitman, Ibsen, and Tolstoi that mix biographical detail, critical interpretation, and comparative observation. The conclusion reflects on continuities with earlier traditions and argues that vigorous individuality continually renews perennial modes of feeling and belief.

THE CANTERBURY POETS.

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THE CHRISTIAN YEARBy the Rev. John Keble.
COLERIDGEEdited by Joseph Skipsey.
LONGFELLOWEdited by Eva Hope.
CAMPBELLEdited by John Hogben.
SHELLEYEdited by Joseph Skipsey.
WORDSWORTHEdited by A. J. Symington.
BLAKEEdited by Joseph Skipsey.
WHITTIEREdited by Eva Hope.
POEEdited by Joseph Skipsey.
CHATTERTONEdited by John Richmond.
BURNS. PoemsEdited by Joseph Skipsey.
BURNS. SongsEdited by Joseph Skipsey.
MARLOWEEdited by Percy E. Pinkerton.
KEATSEdited by John Hogben.
HERBERTEdited by Ernest Rhys.
HUGOTranslated by Dean Carrington.
COWPEREdited by Eva Hope.
SHAKESPEARE’S POEMS, Etc.Edited by William Sharp.
EMERSONEdited by Walter Lewin.
SONNETS OF THIS CENTURYEdited by William Sharp.
WHITMANEdited by Ernest Rhys.
SCOTT. Marmion, etc.Edited by William Sharp.
SCOTT. Lady of the Lake, etc.Edited by William Sharp.
PRAEDEdited by Frederick Cooper.
HOGGEdited by his Daughter, Mrs. Garden.
GOLDSMITHEdited by William Tirebuck.
LOVE LETTERS, Etc.By Eric Mackay.
SPENSEREdited by Hon. Roden Noel.
CHILDREN OF THE POETSEdited by Eric S. Robertson.
JONSONEdited by J. Addington Symonds.
BYRON (2 Vols.)Edited by Mathilde Blind.
THE SONNETS OF EUROPEEdited by S. Waddington.
RAMSAYEdited by J. Logie Robertson.
DOBELLEdited by Mrs. Dobell.
DAYS OF THE YEARWith Introduction by William Sharp.
POPEEdited by John Hogben.
HEINEEdited by Mrs. Kroeker.
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHEREdited by John S. Fletcher.
BOWLES, LAMB. &c.Edited by William Tirebuck.
EARLY ENGLISH POETRYEdited by H. Macaulay Fitzgibbon.
SEA MUSICEdited by Mrs. Sharp.
HERRICKEdited by Ernest Rhys.
BALLADS AND RONDEAUSEdited by J. Gleeson White.
IRISH MINSTRELSYEdited by H. Halliday Sparling.
MILTON’S PARADISE LOSTEdited by J. Bradshaw, M.A., LL.D.
JACOBITE BALLADSEdited by G. S. Macquoid.
AUSTRALIAN BALLADSEdited by D. B. W. Sladen, B.A.
MOOREEdited by John Dorrian.
BORDER BALLADSEdited by Graham R. Tomson.
SONG-TIDEBy Philip Bourke Marston.
ODES OF HORACETranslations by Sir Stephen de Vere, Bt.
OSSIANEdited by George Eyre-Todd.
ELFIN MUSICEdited by Arthur Edward Waite.
SOUTHEYEdited by Sidney R. Thompson.
CHAUCEREdited by Frederick Noël Paton.
POEMS OF WILD LIFEEdited by Charles G. D. Roberts, M.A.
PARADISE REGAINEDEdited by J. Bradshaw, M.A., LL.D.
CRABBEEdited by E. Lamplough.
DORA GREENWELLEdited by William Dorling.
FAUSTEdited by Elizabeth Craigmyle.
AMERICAN SONNETSEdited by William Sharp.
LANDOR’S POEMSEdited by Ernest Radford.
GREEK ANTHOLOGYEdited by Graham R. Tomson.
HUNT AND HOODEdited by J. Harwood Panting.
HUMOROUS POEMSEdited by Ralph H. Caine.
LYTTON’S PLAYSEdited by R. Farquharson Sharp.
GREAT ODESEdited by William Sharp.
MEREDITH’S POEMSEdited by M. Betham-Edwards.
PAINTER-POETSEdited by Kineton Parkes.
WOMEN POETSEdited by Mrs. Sharp.
LOVE LYRICSEdited by Percy Hulburd.
AMERICAN HUMOROUS VERSEEdited by James Barr.
MINOR SCOTCH LYRICSEdited by Sir George Douglas.
CAVALIER LYRISTSEdited by Will H. Dircks.
GERMAN BALLADSEdited by Elizabeth Craigmyle.
SONGS OF BERANGERTranslated by William Toynbee.
POEMS OF THE HON. RODEN NOEL.With an Introduction by Robert Buchanan.