Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 5
... tragic , as King Lear is tragic . It is only when the story gets going in the third act that emotion rises to tragic intensity ; the first part is diversified by a number of satirical and comic scenes . The hero and heroine themselves ...
... tragic , as King Lear is tragic . It is only when the story gets going in the third act that emotion rises to tragic intensity ; the first part is diversified by a number of satirical and comic scenes . The hero and heroine themselves ...
Page 19
... tragic atmosphere which envelops King Lear . To a detached observer , the life of the great world is never consistently tragic ; it is an extraordinary compound of sad and comic , prosaic and poetic . So is Shakespeare's play . There is ...
... tragic atmosphere which envelops King Lear . To a detached observer , the life of the great world is never consistently tragic ; it is an extraordinary compound of sad and comic , prosaic and poetic . So is Shakespeare's play . There is ...
Page 198
... tragic one , because Scott makes us so vividly aware that , in spite of the differences engendered in them by national tradition , they are in a sense brothers ; and , as such , should be able to live in perfect harmony with each other ...
... tragic one , because Scott makes us so vividly aware that , in spite of the differences engendered in them by national tradition , they are in a sense brothers ; and , as such , should be able to live in perfect harmony with each other ...
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