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... acters shaped by an historic living past , moulded by the forces of religion and religious strife ; heroic figures like Claverhouse , humor- ous delineations of eccentricity accreting round a hard core of common sense like Jonathan ...
... acters shaped by an historic living past , moulded by the forces of religion and religious strife ; heroic figures like Claverhouse , humor- ous delineations of eccentricity accreting round a hard core of common sense like Jonathan ...
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... acters common to all but hitherto only expressible in poetry . We find examples of both in Meredith . But Meredith was also a poet in the technical sense , and whether we look on him as a poet first and a novelist second , or vice versa ...
... acters common to all but hitherto only expressible in poetry . We find examples of both in Meredith . But Meredith was also a poet in the technical sense , and whether we look on him as a poet first and a novelist second , or vice versa ...
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... acters - the old novelist Driffield , his wife Rosie , and the absurdly engaging careerist - novelist Alroy Kear - are splendidly realized . - Writing novels was only one of the literary activities of Ford Madox Ford ( 1873-1939 ) - he ...
... acters - the old novelist Driffield , his wife Rosie , and the absurdly engaging careerist - novelist Alroy Kear - are splendidly realized . - Writing novels was only one of the literary activities of Ford Madox Ford ( 1873-1939 ) - he ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
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