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... poetry , will enable him to express moments of consciousness in his char- 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 ...
... poetry , will enable him to express moments of consciousness in his char- 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 ...
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... poetry we have no word adequately to describe them . The passage is complex , but the complexity is that of poetry . A perception , ' He must be good ... ' with all its implications , has crystallized . We have , in fact , something ...
... poetry we have no word adequately to describe them . The passage is complex , but the complexity is that of poetry . A perception , ' He must be good ... ' with all its implications , has crystallized . We have , in fact , something ...
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... poetic quality of the whole that makes the superstition credible . The poetry heightens and deepens our sense of Henchard's tragic fate . Two in- stances of this poetry may be quoted : the moment when his wedding present to Elizabeth ...
... poetic quality of the whole that makes the superstition credible . The poetry heightens and deepens our sense of Henchard's tragic fate . Two in- stances of this poetry may be quoted : the moment when his wedding present to Elizabeth ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
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