Poets and Story-tellersBarnes & Noble, 1961 - 201 pages |
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Page 29
... vision of the conflict of spiritual forces that , in his view , lie behind the appearances of life as we see it . This is what gives his work unity and significance . His vision is a moral one . Webster sees life as a struggle between ...
... vision of the conflict of spiritual forces that , in his view , lie behind the appearances of life as we see it . This is what gives his work unity and significance . His vision is a moral one . Webster sees life as a struggle between ...
Page 106
... vision . She puts herself in a position in which the humorous aspects of her subject stand out most obviously , so that by only setting out the facts in their unemphasised sobriety she can make them amusing . Mrs. Churchill's death had ...
... vision . She puts herself in a position in which the humorous aspects of her subject stand out most obviously , so that by only setting out the facts in their unemphasised sobriety she can make them amusing . Mrs. Churchill's death had ...
Page 201
... vision . If that vision is incoherent , if those foundations are insecure , so also is the building that rests on them . We move through it entranced but uneasy ; for we are , half consciously , aware that at any moment the whole ...
... vision . If that vision is incoherent , if those foundations are insecure , so also is the building that rests on them . We move through it entranced but uneasy ; for we are , half consciously , aware that at any moment the whole ...
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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