Poets and Story-tellersBarnes & Noble, 1961 - 201 pages |
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Page 6
... living by providing entertainment for any audience they could persuade to listen to them . The audience moreover , was unsophisticated . It had no theories as to what drama ought to be . All it wanted was to be entertained : and its ...
... living by providing entertainment for any audience they could persuade to listen to them . The audience moreover , was unsophisticated . It had no theories as to what drama ought to be . All it wanted was to be entertained : and its ...
Page 157
... living in the same world as he is , he will better understand his terms of reference and should be able to enter more closely into his feelings . He has got something to tell his readers that no critic of a later generation can know ...
... living in the same world as he is , he will better understand his terms of reference and should be able to enter more closely into his feelings . He has got something to tell his readers that no critic of a later generation can know ...
Page 177
... living at Marlow , and was every- thing still the same ? Oh , she could remember it as if it were yesterday - going on the river , feeling very cold . But if the Mannings made a plan they stuck to it . Never should she forget Herbert ...
... living at Marlow , and was every- thing still the same ? Oh , she could remember it as if it were yesterday - going on the river , feeling very cold . But if the Mannings made a plan they stuck to it . Never should she forget Herbert ...
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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