Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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... significance ; a panorama need have none of these things . It is Shakespeare's triumph that he does manage to make his panorama into a work of art . For the incoherent heterogeneous material which is his subject - matter is all made to ...
... significance ; a panorama need have none of these things . It is Shakespeare's triumph that he does manage to make his panorama into a work of art . For the incoherent heterogeneous material which is his subject - matter is all made to ...
Page 89
... significance of the small gesture , the almost imperceptible movement indicating the hidden trend of emotion . How justly she describes Cecilia's gradual discovery that her heart is lost to young Delvile ! With what a succession of ...
... significance of the small gesture , the almost imperceptible movement indicating the hidden trend of emotion . How justly she describes Cecilia's gradual discovery that her heart is lost to young Delvile ! With what a succession of ...
Page 135
... significance that are the characteristic beauty of a work of art . Turgenev's Russian sense of reality makes his illusion perfect . Incident and character are photographically true to objective fact ; yet each has its part to play in ...
... significance that are the characteristic beauty of a work of art . Turgenev's Russian sense of reality makes his illusion perfect . Incident and character are photographically true to objective fact ; yet each has its part to play in ...
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