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 165
... satire Prose : Rise of mod- ern prose Newspapers become common Different kinds of books in prose Drama : Observes the " rules " Disregards morals " Heroic " serious plays Comedies of wit Stuart : Charles II , '85 James II , '89 William ...
... satire Prose : Rise of mod- ern prose Newspapers become common Different kinds of books in prose Drama : Observes the " rules " Disregards morals " Heroic " serious plays Comedies of wit Stuart : Charles II , '85 James II , '89 William ...
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... satire than the Restoration ; and the changes in taste that led to the romantic literature of the nineteenth cen- tury were not yet prominent . Literature was brilliant and correct ; the great writers were the friends of the leaders in ...
... satire than the Restoration ; and the changes in taste that led to the romantic literature of the nineteenth cen- tury were not yet prominent . Literature was brilliant and correct ; the great writers were the friends of the leaders in ...
Pagina 194
... satire not only on differences in religion but on a whole array of human follies . Its power is tremendous . Swift himself in his last years , speaking of it , said , " Good God ! What a genius I had when I wrote that book . " But it ...
... satire not only on differences in religion but on a whole array of human follies . Its power is tremendous . Swift himself in his last years , speaking of it , said , " Good God ! What a genius I had when I wrote that book . " But it ...
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THE BACKGROUNDS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE | 3 |
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
Age of Prose In the South | 25 |
Copyright | |
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