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... True : there were no high - brows in Shakespeare's time . It was possible for Shakespeare to write plays that were at once popular drama and poetry that could be appreciated only by an educated minority ... The same is not true ... of ...
... True : there were no high - brows in Shakespeare's time . It was possible for Shakespeare to write plays that were at once popular drama and poetry that could be appreciated only by an educated minority ... The same is not true ... of ...
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... true . This is not , of course , to argue that only ' sociologically true ' literature can be good literature . The point made above ( that quality ultimately depends on imaginatively facing actual experience ) rules out such a ...
... true . This is not , of course , to argue that only ' sociologically true ' literature can be good literature . The point made above ( that quality ultimately depends on imaginatively facing actual experience ) rules out such a ...
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... true taste to be defined ? And if a democracy of taste , a mere counting of heads , is not sufficient , what does constitute true taste in reading ? These are issues which Dryden never once raises ; and Pope raises them for professional ...
... true taste to be defined ? And if a democracy of taste , a mere counting of heads , is not sufficient , what does constitute true taste in reading ? These are issues which Dryden never once raises ; and Pope raises them for professional ...
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The sociology of literature | 24 |
The sociology of the author | 50 |
The novel realism and modernism | 64 |
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