Cassell's Encyclopædia of World Literature, Volume 1Sigfrid Henry Steinberg Funk & Wagnalls, 1954 - 2086 pagina's |
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Pagina 16
... sometimes seems fevered exaggera- tion , even parody , of other writing already popular in his day . Poe's despair , his melancholy concern with transience and disease , derived partly from his own personality , partly from a tradition ...
... sometimes seems fevered exaggera- tion , even parody , of other writing already popular in his day . Poe's despair , his melancholy concern with transience and disease , derived partly from his own personality , partly from a tradition ...
Pagina 65
... Sometimes the writing of letters has the character of an intimate diary , as with Balzac's series à l'Étrangère . Sometimes it is a record of events , as with Horace Walpole . Sometimes it sets out to transmit moral reflections , as in ...
... Sometimes the writing of letters has the character of an intimate diary , as with Balzac's series à l'Étrangère . Sometimes it is a record of events , as with Horace Walpole . Sometimes it sets out to transmit moral reflections , as in ...
Pagina 495
... sometimes turning discursively to more general and philosophical topics . Persius , a Stoic , also had philosophical interests ; but his literary originality lay in a tart realism , a vivid , slangy , rugged style , which may be ...
... sometimes turning discursively to more general and philosophical topics . Persius , a Stoic , also had philosophical interests ; but his literary originality lay in a tart realism , a vivid , slangy , rugged style , which may be ...
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