The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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... exist at all ; the two may be fused . This is evident if we consider a poem , Words- worth's Immortality Ode , for instance . Wordsworth's aim there was certainly not solely to create beauty ; he was con- cerned just as much with making ...
... exist at all ; the two may be fused . This is evident if we consider a poem , Words- worth's Immortality Ode , for instance . Wordsworth's aim there was certainly not solely to create beauty ; he was con- cerned just as much with making ...
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... exist independ- ently of their author . Had she allowed them to exist in- dependently of her all the time she would truly have been a great novelist . There is Lady Clonbrony , for instance , an object of contempt to her guests , an ...
... exist independ- ently of their author . Had she allowed them to exist in- dependently of her all the time she would truly have been a great novelist . There is Lady Clonbrony , for instance , an object of contempt to her guests , an ...
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... exist in their own profoundly felt world , a world of great density and solidity , that of Dublin on that June day ... exists at the opposite pole of the creative impulse to Joyce ; he is a great romantic poet who used the form of the ...
... exist in their own profoundly felt world , a world of great density and solidity , that of Dublin on that June day ... exists at the opposite pole of the creative impulse to Joyce ; he is a great romantic poet who used the form of the ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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