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... effect of the Elizabethan drama , and of Shakespeare above all , on the novel in England can scarcely be over - estimated . It was immeasurably greater than that of the fiction of the period . To read the great Elizabethan plays as ...
... effect of the Elizabethan drama , and of Shakespeare above all , on the novel in England can scarcely be over - estimated . It was immeasurably greater than that of the fiction of the period . To read the great Elizabethan plays as ...
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... effect , much what Wyndham Lewis has said in The Writer and the Absolute : there is in all those arts which parallel nature something like a law obliging the artist to a fanatical scrupulosity , as it were a physical incapacity to ...
... effect , much what Wyndham Lewis has said in The Writer and the Absolute : there is in all those arts which parallel nature something like a law obliging the artist to a fanatical scrupulosity , as it were a physical incapacity to ...
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... effect of which everything is subdued : choice of words , rhythms , balance of clauses , length of sentences , culmination of paragraphs . The total effect aimed at , as in James's very different , much more inti- mate prose , is to ...
... effect of which everything is subdued : choice of words , rhythms , balance of clauses , length of sentences , culmination of paragraphs . The total effect aimed at , as in James's very different , much more inti- mate prose , is to ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
Copyright | |
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