Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
We are happily passing out of the critical obsession, under which it was a sign of ignorance to attribute a venerable age to the records of the past. All the old books were written yesterday, or at earliest the day before! Facts, however, are stubborn; and facts, as they come...
We are happily passing out of the critical obsession, under which it was a sign of ignorance to attribute a venerable age to the records of the past. All the old books were writ...
7. PART IIAuthors are not invariably the best critics of their own work. Was Solomon Ibn Gebirol, who was born in Andalusia, perhaps in Malaga, in the earlier part of the eleventh century...
8. PART IIIOn April 25, 1655, six months before starting on his mission to Cromwell, Menasseh ben Israel--visionary about to play the rôle of statesman--completed in Amsterdam the Spanish...
9. PART IVNo selection from Byron’s poetry is complete unless it contain some of the “Hebrew Melodies.” Matthew Arnold included five of the twenty-three pieces; Bulwer Lytton adopted them...
10. Chapter 3. Certainly those who have beheld the heavens on an OrientalIt was left to the theologian Blanco White to combine the two thoughts of fear and illumination, expressed in the Midrash quoted above and in Psalm 8, into an exquisite Sonnet....
11. PART VTwo great literary forces, poets both yet both greater in what they said than in how they said it, expressed their most intimate beliefs on life and destiny under the guise of a...