Poets and Story-tellersBarnes & Noble, 1961 - 201 pages |
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Page 126
... Russian novels are both more realistic and more religious than other novels . There is no doubt about their realism . From Lermontov to Chekov , Russian writers are out to describe ex- perience exactly as it is . Apparently they ...
... Russian novels are both more realistic and more religious than other novels . There is no doubt about their realism . From Lermontov to Chekov , Russian writers are out to describe ex- perience exactly as it is . Apparently they ...
Page 127
... Russians : for the Christian religion had soaked itself so deeply into every fibre of Russian society , that to Russians , the soul was as unquestioned a fact as the body . Any true picture of reality must include it . Indeed the soul ...
... Russians : for the Christian religion had soaked itself so deeply into every fibre of Russian society , that to Russians , the soul was as unquestioned a fact as the body . Any true picture of reality must include it . Indeed the soul ...
Page 128
... Russian heroine asks herself . " Will it help me to lead a good life ? " And finally , " What do I mean by good ? " It is their preoccupation with these matters which led so many of their first English readers- virtuous , healthy ...
... Russian heroine asks herself . " Will it help me to lead a good life ? " And finally , " What do I mean by good ? " It is their preoccupation with these matters which led so many of their first English readers- virtuous , healthy ...
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action admiration Adolphe æsthetic Antony and Cleopatra Antony's appear artist aspects beauty Branghtons Burney's character charm 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 Forster give Gray Gray's hand heart heroine historical House of Gentlefolk Howard's End human humour imagination impression inevitably intensity Jane Austen ladies living Longest Journey looked love-story Mansfield Park mind Miss mood moral mystery nature never novel novelists observation Octavius once passages passion picture Pindaric play plot poem poet poetry Progress of Poesy reader realistic reality relation reveals romantic Russian satirical scene seems sense sensibility Shakespeare significance social soul spirit story success talent taste theme things THOMAS GRAY thought tragedy tragic true Turgenev turn Virginia Woolf virtue vision Webster Wilcox worldly writer