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... prose the formal order and complexity of structure we find in much Elizabethan poetry . It is , in fact , pattern - writing , self - conscious , highly artificial , rhetorical Witty and often pointed , it appeared ridiculous in the eyes ...
... prose the formal order and complexity of structure we find in much Elizabethan poetry . It is , in fact , pattern - writing , self - conscious , highly artificial , rhetorical Witty and often pointed , it appeared ridiculous in the eyes ...
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... prose equivalent of the Elizabethan song and the limpid pastoral verses of Robert Greene himself . The romantic and pastoral , however , is only one part of Elizabethan prose fiction . Something akin to the realistic drama , the ...
... prose equivalent of the Elizabethan song and the limpid pastoral verses of Robert Greene himself . The romantic and pastoral , however , is only one part of Elizabethan prose fiction . Something akin to the realistic drama , the ...
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... prose ' and to write about ordinary life as epics are written , he meant exactly what he said . His concern was with words ; his aim was to give the prose paragraph the texture and exactitude of classical poetry ; he wanted to get into ...
... prose ' and to write about ordinary life as epics are written , he meant exactly what he said . His concern was with words ; his aim was to give the prose paragraph the texture and exactitude of classical poetry ; he wanted to get into ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 50 |
Copyright | |
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