Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are moments of great power. It is a genuine tragedy that the theme and its treatment are unworthy of the courageous experiment of its production...
...these poems may appear dry to us because they have been forced upon us as required reading, to the readers of Milton's time they were filed with wonderful freshness, and still stand out as perfect examples of lyric poetry. In Comus, which Milton wrote next, we see the theme of temptation and the disciplinary power of temptation, which ran through all of his later works." Professor Lowes also showed that in Milton we see a long conflict between his appreciation of beauty and his Puritan attitude toward beauty...
...literature and life, so long as life is lived by story-loving human beings, and literature is produced by them. Signs are, indeed, not lacking that as the motor car, the airplane, the motion picture, cease to be novelties, and the war, for the present at least, seems a theme too sickening to dwell on overmuch, the novel is returning to some of the old function as the chief stimulus to those who feel the imaginative force waning...
...important characters of the 'Iliad' are men, while those of the 'Odyssey' are women, but the great moral theme of the former is courage embodied in Achilles, while that of the 'Odyssey' is the ability of a strong man. 'Odysseus, to overcome obstacles. He matches himself against for universe and wins...
...Beggar's Opera" took London by surprise and fifty years later it was still a favorite theme for polite dispute. The occasion on which Johnson coined this mouth-filling dictum is memorable for another reason; -- the attentive Boswell for once disagreed with his master's defense of the play, and declared "the gaiety and heroines of a highwayman very captivating to a youthful imagination", and a temptation which "it requires a cool and strong judgment to resist". Boswell was not alone in his brave opposition; no loss a figure than Edmund Burke "thought the literary merit of "The Beggar...