Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 50
... expression of his mental life . This , we have seen , was aesthetic : Gray enjoyed 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 ...
... expression of his mental life . This , we have seen , was aesthetic : Gray enjoyed 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 ...
Page 58
... expression of ultimate spiritual reality , where Truth is the same as Beauty and Beauty the same as Truth . Poetry ... expressions of this phase of his work , sentiment leads to reflection and reflection to a moral . The Eton ...
... expression of ultimate spiritual reality , where Truth is the same as Beauty and Beauty the same as Truth . Poetry ... expressions of this phase of his work , sentiment leads to reflection and reflection to a moral . The Eton ...
Page 93
... expression of an imaginative conception , but merely a means of record- ing her observations of the world , which she organised into an artificial unity by using any convention of story - writing she found to her hand . Only if she had ...
... expression of an imaginative conception , but merely a means of record- ing her observations of the world , which she organised into an artificial unity by using any convention of story - writing she found to her hand . Only if she had ...
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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