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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 by
...
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 by
...
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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 | 51 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History Part 9 of A Dutton Paperback Dutton everyman paperback |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Dutton, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 May 2007 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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