Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan Company, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 68
... true of all The fact that he was an Poetry , says Pope , should be but ne'er so well expressed " . poetry . But it is true of Gray's . exquisite artist made it possible for him to express the commonplace with an eloquence and a nobility ...
... true of all The fact that he was an Poetry , says Pope , should be but ne'er so well expressed " . poetry . But it is true of Gray's . exquisite artist made it possible for him to express the commonplace with an eloquence and a nobility ...
Page 104
... true almost uniformly to the first rule of literary art , she excludes from her books all aspects of life that cannot pass through the crucible of her imagination . So that every inch of her book is vital . She is not only true to the ...
... true almost uniformly to the first rule of literary art , she excludes from her books all aspects of life that cannot pass through the crucible of her imagination . So that every inch of her book is vital . She is not only true to the ...
Page 127
... true to fact . Chekov's stories , compared to the short stories of his Western contemporaries , have no plot in the conventional sense of the word . Beginning in the middle of a situation , they stop as often as not abruptly and ...
... true to fact . Chekov's stories , compared to the short stories of his Western contemporaries , have no plot in the conventional sense of the word . Beginning in the middle of a situation , they stop as often as not abruptly and ...
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