Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 3Chambers, 1922 - English literature |
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Page 129
... critics still explain this by affirming that Byron's poetry is finer than that of his contemporaries ; but these are few and of very little importance , for Ruskin , with all his genius , was an extremely bad critic of poetry . By far ...
... critics still explain this by affirming that Byron's poetry is finer than that of his contemporaries ; but these are few and of very little importance , for Ruskin , with all his genius , was an extremely bad critic of poetry . By far ...
Page 496
... critic . Mr Frederic Harrison's words , he ' began life as a journalist , a critic , a novelist , a dramatist , a biographer , and an essayist ; he closed it as a mathematician , a physicist , a chemist , a biologist , a psychologist ...
... critic . Mr Frederic Harrison's words , he ' began life as a journalist , a critic , a novelist , a dramatist , a biographer , and an essayist ; he closed it as a mathematician , a physicist , a chemist , a biologist , a psychologist ...
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... critic he wields a versatile and trenchant pen . He has written on the meaning of history ( 1862 ) , on order and progress , on education and the choice of books , on Byzantine history , and on early Victorian literature ; edited the ...
... critic he wields a versatile and trenchant pen . He has written on the meaning of history ( 1862 ) , on order and progress , on education and the choice of books , on Byzantine history , and on early Victorian literature ; edited the ...
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