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... seems likely that it was so in part because Lawrence wrote the final version after his elopement with Frieda Weekley , and with her help . He had shown much of the earlier version to Jessie Chambers , his long - term sweetheart , who ...
... seems likely that it was so in part because Lawrence wrote the final version after his elopement with Frieda Weekley , and with her help . He had shown much of the earlier version to Jessie Chambers , his long - term sweetheart , who ...
Page 152
... seems fair to call Hemingwayesque , because of its continuous suggestion that if the speaker allowed himself any expressiveness his voice would rise to a scream . And it seems right to invoke Hemingway's name also because one whole sub ...
... seems fair to call Hemingwayesque , because of its continuous suggestion that if the speaker allowed himself any expressiveness his voice would rise to a scream . And it seems right to invoke Hemingway's name also because one whole sub ...
Page 160
... seems to have meant to Amis , Larkin was at first an anti - Waugh writer , a plain man as literary intellectual ; an influence working in the same direction as Orwell , Leavis , and Law- rence . But in the 1960s he began implicitly to ...
... seems to have meant to Amis , Larkin was at first an anti - Waugh writer , a plain man as literary intellectual ; an influence working in the same direction as Orwell , Leavis , and Law- rence . But in the 1960s he began implicitly to ...
Contents
1 THE EMPIRE AND THE ADVENTURE | 1 |
THE EMPIRE | 16 |
THE SISTERS | 46 |
Copyright | |
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