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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 ...
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 ...
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As a novel , or as novel in posse , it has commonly been overrated , because
critics 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 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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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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