Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 120
... hand , and on the other hand , more subtly , to the clever worldly Crawfords . Persuasion is about love . How far should love be restrained by prudential considerations ? It is a different sort of subject from that of her other books ...
... hand , and on the other hand , more subtly , to the clever worldly Crawfords . Persuasion is about love . How far should love be restrained by prudential considerations ? It is a different sort of subject from that of her other books ...
Page 156
... hand vision of experience . Much would - be creative writing does not do this , but only reflects conceptions of life current in his time . Scott's heroes for instance are merely pictures of the ideal gentleman as conceived in his day ...
... hand vision of experience . Much would - be creative writing does not do this , but only reflects conceptions of life current in his time . Scott's heroes for instance are merely pictures of the ideal gentleman as conceived in his day ...
Page 183
... hand , is that they are not so united . This contrast between what man wants in relation to his fellows , and what he gets is the outstanding feature of Mr. Forster's vision of the world . He is not content , however , merely to record ...
... hand , is that they are not so united . This contrast between what man wants in relation to his fellows , and what he gets is the outstanding feature of Mr. Forster's vision of the world . He is not content , however , merely to record ...
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