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... prose fiction of that age is now academic ; many of these works may still be read with pleasure , but scarcely ever with that we derive from novels . Lyly's Euphues , published in 1579 , has a story of a kind , but that is not its main ...
... prose fiction of that age is now academic ; many of these works may still be read with pleasure , but scarcely ever with that we derive from novels . Lyly's Euphues , published in 1579 , has a story of a kind , but that is not its main ...
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... prose romances which , pastoral or otherwise , are of a kind . Young men of noble birth are shipwrecked among shepherds and shepherdesses in a vaguely ancient - Greek landscape ; the course of the action always includes mistaken ...
... prose romances which , pastoral or otherwise , are of a kind . Young men of noble birth are shipwrecked among shepherds and shepherdesses in a vaguely ancient - Greek landscape ; the course of the action always includes mistaken ...
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... prose . Understandably , for as a writer of imaginative prose he was un- equalled in his age by any except Shakespeare , Jonson , and Webster . And his prose is still a living thing : in our own time it has influenced both James Joyce ...
... prose . Understandably , for as a writer of imaginative prose he was un- equalled in his age by any except Shakespeare , Jonson , and Webster . And his prose is still a living thing : in our own time it has influenced both James Joyce ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
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