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Yet the effect of the Elizabethan drama, and of Shak speare above all, on the
novel in England can scarcely be overestimated. It was immeasurably greater
than that of the fiction of the period. To read the great Elizabethan plays as novels
is no ...
Yet the effect of the Elizabethan drama, and of Shak speare above all, on the
novel in England can scarcely be overestimated. It was immeasurably greater
than that of the fiction of the period. To read the great Elizabethan plays as novels
is no ...
Page 164
It means that in the last analysis we respond to the later novels as to great poems
, for their effect is that of poetry, the poetry, as David Cecil has suggested, of the
late Elizabethan drama, the plays of Webster and Ford and Tourneur.
It means that in the last analysis we respond to the later novels as to great poems
, for their effect is that of poetry, the poetry, as David Cecil has suggested, of the
late Elizabethan drama, the plays of Webster and Ford and Tourneur.
Page 248
He is saying, in effect, much what Wyndham Lewis has said in The Writer and the
Absolute: ... there is in all those arts which parallel nature something like a law
obliging the artist to a fanatical scrupulosity, as it were a physical incapacity ...
He is saying, in effect, much what Wyndham Lewis has said in The Writer and the
Absolute: ... there is in all those arts which parallel nature something like a law
obliging the artist to a fanatical scrupulosity, as it were a physical incapacity ...
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 40 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History Volume 9 of Dutton Paperback: D Pelican books |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Publisher | Phoenix House, 1954 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 16 Jan 2009 |
| Length | 359 pages |
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