Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan Company, 1949 - 201 pages |
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... thing . A work of art must have unity , pattern , significance ; a panorama need have none of these things . It is Shakespeare's triumph that he does manage to make his panorama into a work of art . For the incoherent heterogeneous ...
... thing . A work of art must have unity , pattern , significance ; a panorama need have none of these things . It is Shakespeare's triumph that he does manage to make his panorama into a work of art . For the incoherent heterogeneous ...
Page 50
... things in so far as they appealed to his sense of beauty . " Beauty " is such a misused , shop - soiled word by now that perhaps I may be allowed to stop for a minute and define in what sense I am using it . It is the ordinary , obvious ...
... things in so far as they appealed to his sense of beauty . " Beauty " is such a misused , shop - soiled word by now that perhaps I may be allowed to stop for a minute and define in what sense I am using it . It is the ordinary , obvious ...
Page 147
... things as in great , his fatal weakness betrays itself . The fluctuating phases of the intervening drama are portrayed with an equal insight and subtlety : all its complex movement of quarrel and reconciliation , jealousy and remorse ...
... things as in great , his fatal weakness betrays itself . The fluctuating phases of the intervening drama are portrayed with an equal insight and subtlety : all its complex movement of quarrel and reconciliation , jealousy and remorse ...
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