English Literature: A Critical SurveyPitman, 1951 - 316 pagina's |
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... social behaviour , and between both of these and the trends of philosophic thought . It is not difficult to understand why an art which is as closely integrated with life as literature should in its main features body forth the pulse ...
... social behaviour , and between both of these and the trends of philosophic thought . It is not difficult to understand why an art which is as closely integrated with life as literature should in its main features body forth the pulse ...
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... social milieu . The age was deficient in poetic feeling ; it expressed itself naturally in prose , and even when verse forms were used , the themes were chosen and their treatment determined in an intellectual - critical rather than in ...
... social milieu . The age was deficient in poetic feeling ; it expressed itself naturally in prose , and even when verse forms were used , the themes were chosen and their treatment determined in an intellectual - critical rather than in ...
Pagina 195
... social documents , they lack the universal appeal of dramatists who are inspired by a love of their fellow - kind . Congreve , by excluding from his plays , as Charles Lamb put it , " not only anything like a faultless character , but ...
... social documents , they lack the universal appeal of dramatists who are inspired by a love of their fellow - kind . Congreve , by excluding from his plays , as Charles Lamb put it , " not only anything like a faultless character , but ...
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LITERATURE AS AN | 1 |
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE | 11 |
DESIGN IN POETRY | 20 |
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