Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 82
... talent that could control and vitalise a great deal of diverse material . Further , she was a natural story - teller : she gets the plot going at once , and sustains it by an unflagging talent for inventing incidents . Even though these ...
... talent that could control and vitalise a great deal of diverse material . Further , she was a natural story - teller : she gets the plot going at once , and sustains it by an unflagging talent for inventing incidents . Even though these ...
Page 91
... talents pull together , fuse them in a harmonious whole . This weakness appears con- spicuously in her treatment of character . She had , as we have seen , a talent for analysis and a talent for comic presentation : but she never ...
... talents pull together , fuse them in a harmonious whole . This weakness appears con- spicuously in her treatment of character . She had , as we have seen , a talent for analysis and a talent for comic presentation : but she never ...
Page 95
... talent or of the form which she had chosen . Responsive and undiscriminating , she lay open to any literary influence that came her way ; with the consequence that the harmony of her work , even at its best , is jarred by the ...
... talent or of the form which she had chosen . Responsive and undiscriminating , she lay open to any literary influence that came her way ; with the consequence that the harmony of her work , even at its best , is jarred by the ...
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