Platform Monologues

Æschylus Aristotle artist beauty Ben Jonson brain breath Carlyle century character charm Chaucer creation criticism Dante Davidson delight diction Elizabethan emotions England expression exquisite fact fancy feel flower genius give Goethe grace Greece Greek heart Hebraic Hebraic spirit Hebraism Hebraism and Hellenism Hebrew Hellenic Homer human humour ideal imagination intellectual John Davidson John Shakespeare Keats language learned less light literature live Longinus lyric Macaulay man’s matter Matthew Arnold means melody mental Milton mind modern Molière mood moral nature never Odysseus passage passion perfect Phidias philosophy picture Plato poem poet poet’s poetical poetry possessed prose realize Roman sense sentiment Shakespeare Shelley simply social song sonnets soul sound speak style subtle supreme literary gift supreme writer sympathy tells Tennyson things thought Thucydides true truth utterance verse Victor Hugo vision vivid Watson wholly words Wordsworth