Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan Company, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 9
... hero's ambition and his conscience , in Coriolanus it is directed to the conflict between the hero and the people of Rome . The Roman plays deal with human beings ; but human beings in their external and political aspect , with the ...
... hero's ambition and his conscience , in Coriolanus it is directed to the conflict between the hero and the people of Rome . The Roman plays deal with human beings ; but human beings in their external and political aspect , with the ...
Page 129
... hero and heroine . Lavretzky , the hero , hopes that love will redeem his hitherto wasted life . The heroine , Lisa , takes its unhappy end as a sign that it was a love not blessed by God , whose very rapture was a danger , since it led ...
... hero and heroine . Lavretzky , the hero , hopes that love will redeem his hitherto wasted life . The heroine , Lisa , takes its unhappy end as a sign that it was a love not blessed by God , whose very rapture was a danger , since it led ...
Page 156
... heroes for instance are merely pictures of the ideal gentleman as conceived in his day : his peasants on the other hand are drawn straight from life . In his time readers did not feel the difference very acutely , for the heroes were ...
... heroes for instance are merely pictures of the ideal gentleman as conceived in his day : his peasants on the other hand are drawn straight from life . In his time readers did not feel the difference very acutely , for the heroes were ...
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