a claim which can be rejected by appeal to the lives of poets in any pantheon. It will even be affirmed that much learning deadens or perverts poetic sensibility. While, however, we persist
past works of art form an order or “tradition”; however, that order is always being altered by a new work which modifies the “tradition” to make room for itself. This view, in which “the past should
Their pursuit soon attracts the attention of Texas Ranger La Boeuf (Glen Campbell), who joins the manhunt, hoping to capture Chaney for the murder of a Texas senator and claim a hefty reward. The trio, each driven by their own motives, faces tension and challenges as they navigate d...
I thought of several plots;--Oedipus,--Eteocles and Polynices,--the war of Troy,--the murder of Agamemnon. CALLIDEMUS. And what have you chosen? SPEUSIPPUS. You know there is a law which permits any modern poet to retouch a play of Aeschylus, and bring it forward as his own...
Precisely these. The murder of Agamemnon and the wrath of Achilles. Dido on the funeral pyre. The daggers of the traitors and Caesar’s blood—remember how Suetonius describes his body being borne away on the litter, with one arm hanging down?” “Death is the mother of beauty,” said He...
Great variety is possible in the process of transmution of emotion: the murder of Agamemnon, or the agony of Othello, gives an artistic effect apparently closer to a possible original than the scenes from Dante. In the Agamemnon, the artistic emotion approximates to the emotion of an actual...
The murder of Agamemnon and the wrath of Achilles. Dido on the funeral pyre. The daggers of the traitors and Caesar’s blood—remember how Suetonius describes his body being borne away on the litter, with one arm hanging down?” “Death is the mother of beauty,” said Henry. “And ...
So it is a refreshing surprise to come across something as ambitious in scale as Troy: a trilogy of plays, broadcast tonight and tomorrow, that take us from the birth of Paris, through the siege and destruction of Troy and on to the aftermath - the murder of Agamemnon, and Helen, the ...
. . [and the ghosts discuss the murder of Agamemnon and the funeral of Akhilleus at Troy.] [24. 99 ff Conversation with the ghosts of the suitors : ] Thus they spoke to one another, but the messenger, Argeiphontes [i.e. Hermes], drew near, leading down the spirits of the wooers...
1064). Even the chorus, who pity the priestess and convey some understanding, ultimately fail to fully conceive the true horror of her words as she foretells the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra (Aeschylus 2009, l. 1252). The priestess fails, therefore, to engage the comprehension of her...