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... fact that it is as it is ; if it were something else our pleasure would be different . And we do not " understand " the poem by paraphrasing it , by " translating " it into prose . The meaning of the poem cannot be separated out from ...
... fact that it is as it is ; if it were something else our pleasure would be different . And we do not " understand " the poem by paraphrasing it , by " translating " it into prose . The meaning of the poem cannot be separated out from ...
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... fact a profoundly derivative one , though this does not , of course , reduce his merit for his own time . He came first under the influence of Godwin ; his first novel , published in 1827 , was significantly called Falkland . Pelham ...
... fact a profoundly derivative one , though this does not , of course , reduce his merit for his own time . He came first under the influence of Godwin ; his first novel , published in 1827 , was significantly called Falkland . Pelham ...
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... fact that he approached life without theories and pre- conceptions ; he is both the least intellectual and the least romantic of novelists . In nineteenth - century England , too , he was the one with the widest experience of life ...
... fact that he approached life without theories and pre- conceptions ; he is both the least intellectual and the least romantic of novelists . In nineteenth - century England , too , he was the one with the widest experience of life ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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