The Life of the Spirit in the Modern English Poets
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MODERN REVERSIONS 155 Three ages have held supremely the imagination of our poets. The first is the period of Hellenism, and it i^ interesting: to see that our classical revival finds its inspiration in Greece. The classical revival of the sixteenth century turned mainly to Rome. The practical power of Rome, its noble patriot- ism, its spirit of conquest, were congenial to the compeers of Raleigh. The Roman plays of Shake- speare are firm flesh and bone: his "Pericles" is a dream. Webster's "Ap...pius and Virginia, " Beaumont and Fletcher's "Valentinian, " are noble instances of the Roman impulse. But our own neo-paganism, from Keats to Arnold and Swin- burne, is almost wholly Greek : and it is mighty. Only less strong than the hold of Greece has been the hold of the Middle Ages on the imagina- tion of the poets. But it is the reproduction of the first renais- sance which is the most curious, startling, and novel feature of our new movement towards the past. For here is the reflection of a reflection, the shadow of a shade.
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