Ibsen . imaginative pieces. Mr. Archer was happilyinspired when he spoke of the pure melody ofthe piece, and the best scenes of The MasterBuilder were heroically and almost recklessly^poetical. This remarkable composition is full of what, forwant of a better word, we must call the conversations between Solness and Hildamuch is introduced which is really almost unin-telligible unless we take it to be Master-Builder is one who constructs, nothouses, but poems and plays. It is the poet him-self who gives expression, in the pathetic anderratic confessions of Solne
Ibsen . imaginative pieces. Mr. Archer was happilyinspired when he spoke of the pure melody ofthe piece, and the best scenes of The MasterBuilder were heroically and almost recklessly^poetical. This remarkable composition is full of what, forwant of a better word, we must call the conversations between Solness and Hildamuch is introduced which is really almost unin-telligible unless we take it to be Master-Builder is one who constructs, nothouses, but poems and plays. It is the poet him-self who gives expression, in the pathetic anderratic confessions of Solness, to his doubts, hiscraven timidities, his selfish secrets, and his terrorat the uniformity of his luck. It is less easyto see exactly what Ibsen believed himself tobe presenting to us in the enigmatical figure ofHilda, so attractive and genial, so exquisitelyrefreshing, and yet radically so cruel and super-ficial. She is perhaps conceived as a symbol ofYouth, arriving too late within the circle which.
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