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verse morals were beside the point ; between the forces of nature , including
therein the forces of his own nature , and man ' s aspirations there could be no
reconciliation ; they were eternally opposed , and from the human view the
workings of ...
verse morals were beside the point ; between the forces of nature , including
therein the forces of his own nature , and man ' s aspirations there could be no
reconciliation ; they were eternally opposed , and from the human view the
workings of ...
Page 296
... the issue is being brought about not because it is in the nature of things but
because Hardy wishes it to be so . It is the one turn of the screw too many . But
these failures in the management of his plots matter less in Hardy than they
would in ...
... the issue is being brought about not because it is in the nature of things but
because Hardy wishes it to be so . It is the one turn of the screw too many . But
these failures in the management of his plots matter less in Hardy than they
would in ...
Page 306
... scarcely need . ing proof . He is saying , in effect , much what Wyndham Lewis
has said in The Writer and the Absolute : . . . there is in all those arts which
parallel nature something like a law obliging the artist to a fanatical scrupulosity ,
as it ...
... scarcely need . ing proof . He is saying , in effect , much what Wyndham Lewis
has said in The Writer and the Absolute : . . . there is in all those arts which
parallel nature something like a law obliging the artist to a fanatical scrupulosity ,
as it ...
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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 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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