 | Edmund Spenser - 1876 - 734 pages
...perfect allegory. Indeed, (unless we, with Edgar Poe, except the " Undine " of De La Motte Fouque", where he says, " the allegory is properly handled,...emotion aroused within us by the happiest allegory a* allegory, is a very imperfectly satisfied sense of the writer's ingenuity in overcoming a difficulty... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - American literature - 1883 - 602 pages
...of his ability to keep the allegory out of sight, or of his inability to comprehend it. Of allegory properly handled, judiciously subdued, seen only as...truth in a not obtrusive and therefore not unpleasant apposiieness, the " Undine " of De La Motte Fouque is the best, and undoubtedly a very remarkable specimen.... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Fantasy literature, American - 1889 - 360 pages
...of his ability to keep the allegory out of sight, or of his zVzability to comprehend it. Of allegory properly handled, judiciously subdued, seen only as...obtrusive, and therefore not unpleasant, appositeness, the Undine of De La Motte Fouque is the best, and undoubtedly a very remarkable specimen. The obvious... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1896 - 384 pages
...of his ability to keep the allegory out of sight, or of his zVzability to comprehend it. Of allegory properly handled, judiciously subdued, seen only as...obtrusive and therefore not unpleasant appositeness, the " Undine " of De La Motte Fouqueis the best, and undoubtedly a very remarkable specimen. The obvious... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1907 - 322 pages
...unskilled crude use of it, he cites De La Kouque's " Undine " as a remarkable example of " allegory properly handled, judiciously subdued, seen only as...a shadow or by suggestive glimpses, and making its approach to truth in a not obtrusive, and therefore not unpleasant, appositiveness." 55 : 14. Barroques.... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Sherwin Cody - 1924 - 516 pages
...of his ability to keep the allegory out of sight, or of his inability to comprehend it. Of allegory properly handled, judiciously subdued, seen only as...obtrusive and therefore not unpleasant appositeness, the " Undine " of De La Motte Fouque is the best, and undoubtedly a very remarkable specimen. The obvious... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - American literature - 1926 - 230 pages
...of his ability to keep the allegory out of sight, or of his inability to comprehend it. Of allegory properly handled, judiciously subdued, seen only as...truth in a not obtrusive and therefore not unpleasant appositencss, the "Undine" of De La Motte Fouque is the best, and undoubtedly a very remarkable specimen.... | |
 | Eric Warner, Graham Hough - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 314 pages
...of his ability to keep the allegory out of sight, or of his inability to comprehend it. Of allegory properly handled, judiciously subdued, seen only as...obtrusive and therefore not unpleasant appositeness, the Undine of De la Motte Fouque is the best, and undoubtedly a very remarkable specimen.10 The Philosophy... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1984 - 1572 pages
...of his ability to keep the allegory out of sight, or of his zwability to comprehend it. Of allegory 7eAS m d -ɻ骻8 )T 9( E :< 2 x p [ QA , L g; 'C l w ޒT the "Undine" of DC La Mottc Fouquc is the best, and undoubtedly a very remarkable specimen. The obvious... | |
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Of allegory properly handled, judiciously subdued, seen only as a shadow or by suggestive glimpses, and making its nearest approach to truth in a not obtrusive and therefore not unpleasant appositeness, the Undine of De La Motte Fouque is the best, and... 
