Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 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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action admiration Adolphe æsthetic Antony and Cleopatra Antony's appear artist aspects beauty Branghtons Burney's character charm civilised comedy comic convention critic Dalloway death describes Devil drama Duchess Duchess of Malfi E. M. FORSTER eighteenth-century Elizabethan Ellénore emotion English Evelina experience expression eyes fact Fanny Burney fastidious feeling Flamineo give Gray Gray's hand heart hero heroine historical House of Gentlefolk Howard's End human humour imagination impression inevitably Jane Austen lady live Longest Journey looked love-story Mansfield Park mind mood moral nature never Northanger Abbey novel novelists observation Octavius once passages passion picture Pindaric play plot poem poetry Progress of Poesy reader realistic reality relation reveals romantic Russian satirical scene seems sense sensibility sentiment Shakespeare significance social soul spirit story success talent taste theme things thought tragedy tragic true Turgenev turn Virginia Woolf virtue vision Webster Wilcox worldly writer