Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan Company, 1949 - 201 pages |
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... æsthetic . So also was his attitude to his work . Unlike most novelists he approaches both his subject - matter and his treatment of it from as æsthetic a point of view as a musician's . It is his æsthetic impulse that makes him write ...
... æsthetic . So also was his attitude to his work . Unlike most novelists he approaches both his subject - matter and his treatment of it from as æsthetic a point of view as a musician's . It is his æsthetic impulse that makes him write ...
Page 163
... æsthetic approach . Virginia Woolf's characters are presented to us essentially as solitaries . Their inner life is what really matters about them . Even in company , they seem to be alone , absorbed in private unspoken trains of ...
... æsthetic approach . Virginia Woolf's characters are presented to us essentially as solitaries . Their inner life is what really matters about them . Even in company , they seem to be alone , absorbed in private unspoken trains of ...
Page 172
... æsthetic flavour of the world of man . It may be a Georgian country house , abounding in the sense of its period : " She waited for a moment in the hall . Her eyes were dimmed after the glare of the road . Everything seemed pale and ...
... æsthetic flavour of the world of man . It may be a Georgian country house , abounding in the sense of its period : " She waited for a moment in the hall . Her eyes were dimmed after the glare of the road . Everything seemed pale and ...
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