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Page 163
... seems to have been his favourite dramatist . I suspect that he liked them because of their undoubted incidental resemblance to himself as artist but that they reinforced his own predilections rather than directly influenced him . We ...
... seems to have been his favourite dramatist . I suspect that he liked them because of their undoubted incidental resemblance to himself as artist but that they reinforced his own predilections rather than directly influenced him . We ...
Page 342
... seems that no literary form can afford genius of extreme revolutionary talent too often , for the consequences may easily be a temporary shattering of it . Something like this seems to have happened in the novel in our time . None of ...
... seems that no literary form can afford genius of extreme revolutionary talent too often , for the consequences may easily be a temporary shattering of it . Something like this seems to have happened in the novel in our time . None of ...
Page 344
... seems constrained , not by his own free will but by some powerful and unscrupulous tyrant who has him in thrall , to provide a plot , to provide comedy , tragedy , love interest , and an air of probability embalming the whole so ...
... seems constrained , not by his own free will but by some powerful and unscrupulous tyrant who has him in thrall , to provide a plot , to provide comedy , tragedy , love interest , and an air of probability embalming the whole so ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
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