Poets and Story-tellersBarnes & Noble, 1961 - 201 pages |
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Page 77
... novelist . His subject is the clash of character ; and he exhibits it by an elaborate analysis of the processes of heart and conscience in a given situation . Fielding is the first panoramic novelist . His aim is to give a broad ...
... novelist . His subject is the clash of character ; and he exhibits it by an elaborate analysis of the processes of heart and conscience in a given situation . Fielding is the first panoramic novelist . His aim is to give a broad ...
Page 91
... novelists . So , we feel , might any clever eighteenth - century lady have described the world , had she possessed a turn for writing . Fanny Burney must inevitably have been a minor novelist , for she had not been endowed with a major ...
... novelists . So , we feel , might any clever eighteenth - century lady have described the world , had she possessed a turn for writing . Fanny Burney must inevitably have been a minor novelist , for she had not been endowed with a major ...
Page 126
... novelist's subject matter , in what is to a Western eye a distinctively Russian way . It combines , that is to say , as that of other novelists do not , an extreme realism with an extreme spirituality . Russian novels are both more ...
... novelist's subject matter , in what is to a Western eye a distinctively Russian way . It combines , that is to say , as that of other novelists do not , an extreme realism with an extreme spirituality . Russian novels are both more ...
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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