Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 51
... show itself capable of stimulating by its own unaided power a new and major form of literature . But it was ... shows signs that he feels nunneries and ruins to be romantic . By Gray's time a whole group of persons had grown up ...
... show itself capable of stimulating by its own unaided power a new and major form of literature . But it was ... shows signs that he feels nunneries and ruins to be romantic . By Gray's time a whole group of persons had grown up ...
Page 110
... shows him as a rule not in moments of crisis but in the trivial incidents of every day . Life is made up of little things , and human nature reveals itself in them as fully as in big ones : a picnic shows up selfishness , kindness ...
... shows him as a rule not in moments of crisis but in the trivial incidents of every day . Life is made up of little things , and human nature reveals itself in them as fully as in big ones : a picnic shows up selfishness , kindness ...
Page 135
... shows itself just as much , however , in the form he imposes on his material . No one has ever succeeded better in solving the central formal problem which faces the novelist ; to give a picture of life which gives a convincing illusion ...
... shows itself just as much , however , in the form he imposes on his material . No one has ever succeeded better in solving the central formal problem which faces the novelist ; to give a picture of life which gives a convincing illusion ...
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