Poets and Story-tellersBarnes & Noble, 1961 - 201 pages |
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Page 23
... Artists often are not . Artists seldom are the same sort of people as critics that is why so much criticism is inept . Shakespeare was not a moralist . He appreciated goodness , and disliked evil ; but he did not approach life primarily ...
... Artists often are not . Artists seldom are the same sort of people as critics that is why so much criticism is inept . Shakespeare was not a moralist . He appreciated goodness , and disliked evil ; but he did not approach life primarily ...
Page 48
... artist . No one has ever lived a more intensely academic life . His home background had nothing to offer him , he was a fastidious , scholarly type , incon- gruously born into the Hogarthian world of commercial London . At nine years ...
... artist . No one has ever lived a more intensely academic life . His home background had nothing to offer him , he was a fastidious , scholarly type , incon- gruously born into the Hogarthian world of commercial London . At nine years ...
Page 93
... artist as to be able to sweep the reader away so irresistibly that he overlooks her lapses . Indeed , she is hardly an artist at all in the fullest sense of the word . The novel to her was not the expression of an imaginative conception ...
... artist as to be able to sweep the reader away so irresistibly that he overlooks her lapses . Indeed , she is hardly an artist at all in the fullest sense of the word . The novel to her was not the expression of an imaginative conception ...
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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 complex convention critic Dalloway death Devil drama Duchess Duchess of Malfi E. M. FORSTER eighteenth-century Elizabethan Ellénore emotion English Evelina experience expression eyes fact Fanny Burney feeling Flamineo Forster give Gray Gray's heart hero heroine historical House of Gentlefolk Howard's End human humour imagination impression inevitably Jane Austen ladies live Longest Journey looked love-story Mansfield Park mind Miss 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 shows significance social soul spirit story success talent taste theme things thought tragedy tragic true Turgenev turn Virginia Woolf virtue vision Webster Wilcox worldly writer