Poets and Story-tellersBarnes & Noble, 1961 - 201 pages |
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Page 108
... give us all the sense of spontaneous life we get from a play of Chekhov . Persuasion is less impeccably designed ... gives her story not only a dramatic but also a spiritual unity . Its subject is love , the constant love renounced ...
... give us all the sense of spontaneous life we get from a play of Chekhov . Persuasion is less impeccably designed ... gives her story not only a dramatic but also a spiritual unity . Its subject is love , the constant love renounced ...
Page 135
... give a picture of life which gives a convincing illusion of every - day reality but which also has the shapeliness and continuous significance that are the characteristic beauty of a work of art . Turgenev's Russian sense of reality ...
... give a picture of life which gives a convincing illusion of every - day reality but which also has the shapeliness and continuous significance that are the characteristic beauty of a work of art . Turgenev's Russian sense of reality ...
Page 193
... gives his books their peculiar fascination . After reading one of his packed , live , iridescent pages , the ... give . Like all the best styles it is an exact mirror of its author's mind and temperament . Not in any sense is it ...
... gives his books their peculiar fascination . After reading one of his packed , live , iridescent pages , the ... give . Like all the best styles it is an exact mirror of its author's mind and temperament . Not in any sense is it ...
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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