Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan Company, 1949 - 201 pages |
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... romantic movement , however , the tide turned . Webster was singled out for commendation by a succession of distinguished critics ; Lamb , Swinburne , Rupert Brooke . Gradually their words had effect . Webster was more and more read ...
... romantic movement , however , the tide turned . Webster was singled out for commendation by a succession of distinguished critics ; Lamb , Swinburne , Rupert Brooke . Gradually their words had effect . Webster was more and more read ...
Page 51
... Romantic Movement . This has led some people to say that Gray , just because he liked reading Norse sagas and looking at fourteenth - century abbeys , was a romantic before his time . This is all nonsense . It is true that the sense of ...
... Romantic Movement . This has led some people to say that Gray , just because he liked reading Norse sagas and looking at fourteenth - century abbeys , was a romantic before his time . This is all nonsense . It is true that the sense of ...
Page 119
... romantic philosophy which was sweeping the world in the early nineteenth century . Romanticism , referring all its judgments as it did to the guidance of the instinctive movements of heart and imagination , was profoundly alien to Jane ...
... romantic philosophy which was sweeping the world in the early nineteenth century . Romanticism , referring all its judgments as it did to the guidance of the instinctive movements of heart and imagination , was profoundly alien to Jane ...
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