Poets and Story-tellersBarnes & Noble, 1961 - 201 pages |
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Page 22
... true interests of her lover , and who is so dominated by the desire to attract that she cannot be faithful to him for half - an - hour once his back is turned . Yet in spite of all , the figures of both are resplendent with romance ...
... true interests of her lover , and who is so dominated by the desire to attract that she cannot be faithful to him for half - an - hour once his back is turned . Yet in spite of all , the figures of both are resplendent with romance ...
Page 43
... true nature of the act she is promoting ; its spiritual wickedness , its relation to the supernatural forces of sin and death , of which it is the offspring . Less ugly than a realist's version of the same incident , Webster's is also ...
... true nature of the act she is promoting ; its spiritual wickedness , its relation to the supernatural forces of sin and death , of which it is the offspring . Less ugly than a realist's version of the same incident , Webster's is also ...
Page 104
... true almost uniformly to the first rule of literary art , she excludes from her books all aspects of life that cannot pass through the crucible of her imagination . So that every inch of her book is vital . She is not only true to the ...
... true almost uniformly to the first rule of literary art , she excludes from her books all aspects of life that cannot pass through the crucible of her imagination . So that every inch of her book is vital . She is not only true to the ...
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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