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There are few novels we can discuss as we can the Immortality Ode , and one reason for this is the much greater compactness of poetry as compared with prose , the much greater degree of crystallization which takes place in a poem .
There are few novels we can discuss as we can the Immortality Ode , and one reason for this is the much greater compactness of poetry as compared with prose , the much greater degree of crystallization which takes place in a poem .
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Again House sums up : “ One of the reasons why , in the fifties , his novels begin to show a greater complication of plot than before , is that he was intending to use them as a vehicle for more concentrated sociological argument .
Again House sums up : “ One of the reasons why , in the fifties , his novels begin to show a greater complication of plot than before , is that he was intending to use them as a vehicle for more concentrated sociological argument .
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It is hardly too much to say that the greater part of his significant work is a dramatization of the conflict between good and evil . James's range as a novelist was considerably greater than one might guess either from his admirers or ...
It is hardly too much to say that the greater part of his significant work is a dramatization of the conflict between good and evil . James's range as a novelist was considerably greater than one might guess either from his admirers or ...
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Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Dutton, 1955 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 May 2007 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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