Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan Company, 1949 - 201 pages |
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... Webster states the moral truth which the whole preceding drama has been designed to illustrate . The last lines of ... Webster's deliberate intellectual sinners . For since Webster was primarily a man of intellect concerned with ...
... Webster states the moral truth which the whole preceding drama has been designed to illustrate . The last lines of ... Webster's deliberate intellectual sinners . For since Webster was primarily a man of intellect concerned with ...
Page 41
... Webster's horrors - his ghosts and torturers— are not , as with his lesser contemporaries , mere theatrical devices to awake a pleasing shudder . They are symbolic incarnations of that spiritual terror and diabolical delight in ...
... Webster's horrors - his ghosts and torturers— are not , as with his lesser contemporaries , mere theatrical devices to awake a pleasing shudder . They are symbolic incarnations of that spiritual terror and diabolical delight in ...
Page 43
... Webster , by conceiving his scene thus , turns an ugly episode of lust and treachery and assassination into a thing of sinister magnificence . The strange precise images set the fancy mysteriously and sublimely astir : the ear thrills ...
... Webster , by conceiving his scene thus , turns an ugly episode of lust and treachery and assassination into a thing of sinister magnificence . The strange precise images set the fancy mysteriously and sublimely astir : the ear thrills ...
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