Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 78
... picture of the varieties of the human scene . His plots are merely the framework on which he stretches this picture . Fanny Burney derives from both , but more from Fielding . Here she was like most of her countrymen . Richardson's ...
... picture of the varieties of the human scene . His plots are merely the framework on which he stretches this picture . Fanny Burney derives from both , but more from Fielding . Here she was like most of her countrymen . Richardson's ...
Page 104
... picture of the world as it is . And this confronts him with two problems . First he has to reconcile reality with imagination . Like all works of art his book should be an expression of his personality ; but it must also be a convincing ...
... picture of the world as it is . And this confronts him with two problems . First he has to reconcile reality with imagination . Like all works of art his book should be an expression of his personality ; but it must also be a convincing ...
Page 162
... picture of the world , then is pri- marily a picture of those aspects of it that stir her imagination and sense of beauty . The ugly and æsthetically insignificant she passes by ; or admits only as they may serve as foil to the beauty ...
... picture of the world , then is pri- marily a picture of those aspects of it that stir her imagination and sense of beauty . The ugly and æsthetically insignificant she passes by ; or admits only as they may serve as foil to the beauty ...
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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