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This is evident if we consider a poem , Wordsworth ' s Immortality Ode , for
instance . Wordsworth ' s aim there was certainly not solely to create beauty ; he
was concerned just as much with making statements about a number of things of
great ...
This is evident if we consider a poem , Wordsworth ' s Immortality Ode , for
instance . Wordsworth ' s aim there was certainly not solely to create beauty ; he
was concerned just as much with making statements about a number of things of
great ...
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How many men , for instance , remember certain of their early schoolmasters as
ogres or as figures of wild rib - cracking comedy . They go back to the school
years later and find these same masters not much older than when they were
taught ...
How many men , for instance , remember certain of their early schoolmasters as
ogres or as figures of wild rib - cracking comedy . They go back to the school
years later and find these same masters not much older than when they were
taught ...
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In Oliver Twist , for instance , it does not really matter whether Dickens was
justified in his attack on the poor law or whether he was writing of workhouses
already obsolete at the time of writing . He is concerned not with actual
institutions but ...
In Oliver Twist , for instance , it does not really matter whether Dickens was
justified in his attack on the poor law or whether he was writing of workhouses
already obsolete at the time of writing . He is concerned not with actual
institutions but ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History A Dutton paperback Part 9 of Dutton everyman paperback |
| 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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