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Page 17
... greater compactness of poetry as compared with prose , the much greater degree of crystalli- zation which takes place in a poem . We can hold even so complex a work as the Immortality Ode whole in our mind as we cannot often a novel ...
... greater compactness of poetry as compared with prose , the much greater degree of crystalli- zation which takes place in a poem . We can hold even so complex a work as the Immortality Ode whole in our mind as we cannot often a novel ...
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... greater speed and its much greater cheapness . And the arrival of the train quite literally changed the face of England ; which is why it is so powerful a symbol of change in Dombey and Son . Dickens was essentially a comprehensive ...
... greater speed and its much greater cheapness . And the arrival of the train quite literally changed the face of England ; which is why it is so powerful a symbol of change in Dombey and Son . Dickens was essentially a comprehensive ...
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... greater part of the common experiences of life will not pass . At present , the reaction against her work is probably at its greatest , and I must admit to sharing in it . Much of her fiction seems to me marred by portentousness , and I ...
... greater part of the common experiences of life will not pass . At present , the reaction against her work is probably at its greatest , and I must admit to sharing in it . Much of her fiction seems to me marred by portentousness , and I ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 50 |
Copyright | |
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