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... effect of the Elizabethan drama , and of Shake- 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 ...
... effect of the Elizabethan drama , and of Shake- 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 ...
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... 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 . As Dickens grew older his mood became darker ; success could not heal the wound of his ...
... 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 . As Dickens grew older his mood became darker ; success could not heal the wound of his ...
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... 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 ...
... 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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