Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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... in writing from the pub- lisher , except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion in magazine or newspaper . FIRST PRINTING Printed in the United States of America.
... in writing from the pub- lisher , except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion in magazine or newspaper . FIRST PRINTING Printed in the United States of America.
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... passages of eloquent verse . And they gave them nothing more . At first glance Webster seems just the same as his fellows . No plays contain more ghosts and lunatics and massacres than his ; and no plots , by any realistic standard ...
... passages of eloquent verse . And they gave them nothing more . At first glance Webster seems just the same as his fellows . No plays contain more ghosts and lunatics and massacres than his ; and no plots , by any realistic standard ...
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... passages are poetical rhapsodies . Virginia Woolf can write such passages with the best of them . " But what after all is one night ? A short space , especially when the darkness dims so soon , and so 174 POETS AND STORY TELLERS.
... passages are poetical rhapsodies . Virginia Woolf can write such passages with the best of them . " But what after all is one night ? A short space , especially when the darkness dims so soon , and so 174 POETS AND STORY TELLERS.
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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