English Literature in Fact & Story: Being a Brief Account of Its Writers & Their Backgrounds, Matters Very Necessary to be Known by the Gentle Reader of Polite Letters. To which are Added for His Greater Edification Many Amusing & Famous Anecdotes and Much Other Illustrative Material with Maps, Charts, & PicturesCentury Company, 1929 - 505 pagina's |
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Pagina 372
... ideas of these books are : art must be based on truth ; that art is greatest which includes the greatest ideas ; great art springs only from a great moral and social life ; and art is for the many , not the few . " Life without industry ...
... ideas of these books are : art must be based on truth ; that art is greatest which includes the greatest ideas ; great art springs only from a great moral and social life ; and art is for the many , not the few . " Life without industry ...
Pagina 380
... ideas are worth while and his descriptions of the nature of southern Eng- land - its winds , hills , birds , and trees - are full of beauty . Failing a public for his poetry , he acted as a publisher's reader , served as a correspondent ...
... ideas are worth while and his descriptions of the nature of southern Eng- land - its winds , hills , birds , and trees - are full of beauty . Failing a public for his poetry , he acted as a publisher's reader , served as a correspondent ...
Pagina 402
... ideas - ideas on business , war , politics , eugenics , marriage , morality , evolution , and , especially in his latest plays , on religion . Some of his plays are hardly more than conversations - he himself calls them discussions ...
... ideas - ideas on business , war , politics , eugenics , marriage , morality , evolution , and , especially in his latest plays , on religion . Some of his plays are hardly more than conversations - he himself calls them discussions ...
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THE BACKGROUNDS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE | 3 |
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
Age of Prose In the South | 25 |
Copyright | |
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