The Devil comes into the action, but he also is new--rather the Spirit of the World, "man's elder brother." His methods are those neither of _Faust_ nor of _Paradise Regained_. His temptations are suasive, his lures less material.
In the search for the Ideal of statesmanship Azreel and the Devil come to our own Parliament, Azreel filled with warm enthusiasm, high conceptions. They see, they learn; they discover "types," and discuss them. We find the Devil at length defending the Commons, supplying the corrective to Azreel's strange disillusions. This part will not be the least piquant.
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The present volume is composed of a selection from the previous poetical works of the Author, who is also well known as a writer of prose. The distinctive feature of the poems in this collection--the feature, indeed, that marks off and differentiates the work of this poet from the mass of verse produced to-day--is their spiritual insight. Mr Granville is concerned with the soul of man, with the eternal rather than the transitory, and his perception, which is that of the seer, invests his language with that quality of ecstasy that constitutes the indisputable claim of poetry to rank in the forefront of literature.
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This volume contains the latest work of the greatest Essayist of our time. Maurice Maeterlinck has said of the Author, "He has, in his best moments, that most rare gift of casting certain shafts of light, at once simple and decisive, upon questions the most difficult, obscure, and unlooked for in Art, Morals, and Psychology ... essays among the most subtle and substantial that I know."
This opinion has been endorsed by every critic of note in the British Isles and in the United States of America. Indeed, in the latter country a veritable Grierson cult has sprung into existence.
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SULLY PRUDHOMME (de l'Académie Française):--"J'ai trouvé ces méditations pleines d'aperçus profonds et sagaces. J'ai été frappé de l'originalité puissante de la pensée de l'auteur."
JULES CLARETIE (de l'Académie Française):--"J'ai été charmé par les idées originales et justes."