Research, though toilsome, is easy; imagination, though delightful, is difficult.
Research, though toilsome, is easy; imagination, though delightful, is difficult. A. C. Bradley
Research, though toilsome, is easy; imagination, though delightful, is difficult. A. C. Bradley
The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also, as a rule, … Read More
If we are to include the outer and the inner struggle in a conception more definite than that of conflict in general, we must employ … Read More
Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to make the whole … Read More
The calamities of tragedy do not simply happen, nor are they sent; they proceed mainly from actions, and those the actions of men.We see a … Read More
Macbeth’s deed is done in horror, and without the faintest desire or sense of glory- done, one may almost say, as if it were an … Read More
The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing in action. … Read More
The story depicts also the troubled part of the hero’s life which precedes and leads up to his death; and an instantaneous death occurring by … Read More
A total reverse of fortune, coming unawares upon a man who ‘stood in high degree,’ happy and apparently secure,-such was the tragic fact to the … Read More