...purification, every thing seen in its light, and Clothed in the splendour of its heavenly colouring. In every situation and circumstance, Calderon is, of all dramatic poets, the most Christian, and for that very reason the most romantic. Since the Spanish poetry remained at all times free from foreign...

...nature, than to that termination of perfect purification which is predominant in Calderon. — In short in every situation and circumstance, Calderon is, of all dramatic poets, the most Christian ; whilst in the deepest rece feeling and thought, it has always stru Shakspeare is far more an ancient,...

...nature, than to that termination of perfect purification which is predominant in Calderon.—In short in every situation and circumstance, Calderon is, of all dramatic poets, the most Christian; whilst in the deepest recesses of his feeling and thought, it has always struck me that Shakspeare...

...whole aim and object was to glorify the Church. Schlegel, the -German poet and critic, writes : — " In every situation and circumstance Calderon is of all dramatic poets the most Christian. He would dare to touch upon the most difficult problems that agitate the human mind — the objective...

...theirs. For Sismondi, on the contrary, and for others not a few, he is little better than a dexB trous play-wright, an adroit master of stageeffect; a prodigal...Calderon, as one never-ending hymn of thanksgiving, ascend\ ing continually to the throne of God. Falling * Zect. 29. in, too, with the very point of his...

...master the enigma of life is not merely expressed, but solved," were the words of Frederic Schlegel. And again, " In every situation and circumstance,...Calderon is, of all dramatic poets, the most Christian ;" while Augustus speaks of him as that " blessed man who had escaped from the wild labyrinths of doubt...

...applause which was all that he could justly claim for his own. And perhaps there has been still wider divergence and disagreement in the estimates which...Christian.' And Augustus Schlegel, who had not his brother's Roman Catholic sympathies to affect his judgment, in a passage of rare eloquence in his 'Lectures on...

...whole aim and object was to glorify the Church. Schlegel, the German poet and critic, writes : — " In every situation and circumstance Calderon is of all dramatic poets the most Christian. He would dare to touch upon the most difficult problems that agitate the human mind — the objective...