Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 23
... romantic ; disillusionment and sense of romance combined in an ironical zest for the spectacle of the world , often incompatible with a decisive moral judgment . Some of his most memorable characters those in which we feel he is ...
... romantic ; disillusionment and sense of romance combined in an ironical zest for the spectacle of the world , often incompatible with a decisive moral judgment . Some of his most memorable characters those in which we feel he is ...
Page 51
... Romantic Movement . This has led some people to say that Gray , just because he liked reading Norse sagas and looking at fourteenth - century abbeys , was a romantic before his time . This is all nonsense . It is true that the sense of ...
... Romantic Movement . This has led some people to say that Gray , just because he liked reading Norse sagas and looking at fourteenth - century abbeys , was a romantic before his time . This is all nonsense . It is true that the sense of ...
Page 119
... romantic philosophy which was sweeping the world in the early nineteenth century . Romanticism , referring all its judgments as it did to the guidance of the instinctive movements of heart and imagination , was profoundly alien to Jane ...
... romantic philosophy which was sweeping the world in the early nineteenth century . Romanticism , referring all its judgments as it did to the guidance of the instinctive movements of heart and imagination , was profoundly alien to Jane ...
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