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Sidney, too, aimed at giving prose something of the formal pattern of verse, but, a
better poet than Lyly, he was able to do something else, to give his prose, on
occasion at any rate, the beauty of poetry. It is for these incidental felicities that
we ...
Sidney, too, aimed at giving prose something of the formal pattern of verse, but, a
better poet than Lyly, he was able to do something else, to give his prose, on
occasion at any rate, the beauty of poetry. It is for these incidental felicities that
we ...
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As a novel, or as novel in posse, it has commonly been overrated, because critics
t have fallen under the spell of Nash's prose. Understandably, for as a writer of
imaginative prose he was unequaled in his age by any except Shakespeare, ...
As a novel, or as novel in posse, it has commonly been overrated, because critics
t have fallen under the spell of Nash's prose. Understandably, for as a writer of
imaginative prose he was unequaled in his age by any except Shakespeare, ...
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antiromantic, possessed of insatiable gusto, and these qualities combine to knit
the sinews of his prose. It was during this period that the English began to
acquire the habit of reading, in the absence of which the writing of novels is
scarcely ...
antiromantic, possessed of insatiable gusto, and these qualities combine to knit
the sinews of his prose. It was during this period that the English began to
acquire the habit of reading, in the absence of which the writing of novels is
scarcely ...
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Contents
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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