Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 9
... hero's ambition and his conscience , in Coriolanus it is directed to the conflict between the hero and the people of Rome . The Roman plays deal with human beings ; but human beings in their external and political aspect , with the ...
... hero's ambition and his conscience , in Coriolanus it is directed to the conflict between the hero and the people of Rome . The Roman plays deal with human beings ; but human beings in their external and political aspect , with the ...
Page 78
... hero and heroine , and held together rather loosely by a symmetrical plot , culminating in their happy marriage . Perhaps the shortest way to sum up her place in the history of English Letters is to say that she was the first writer to ...
... hero and heroine , and held together rather loosely by a symmetrical plot , culminating in their happy marriage . Perhaps the shortest way to sum up her place in the history of English Letters is to say that she was the first writer to ...
Page 156
... heroes for instance are merely pictures of the ideal gentleman as conceived in his day : his peasants on the other hand are drawn straight from life . In his time readers did not feel the difference very acutely , for the heroes were ...
... heroes for instance are merely pictures of the ideal gentleman as conceived in his day : his peasants on the other hand are drawn straight from life . In his time readers did not feel the difference very acutely , for the heroes were ...
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