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Page 90
... concerned with establishing their own individual reality , in a self - contained verbal universe . The latter is the second and opposed impulse to which I have referred : the novelist , who must use words with meanings , cannot ...
... concerned with establishing their own individual reality , in a self - contained verbal universe . The latter is the second and opposed impulse to which I have referred : the novelist , who must use words with meanings , cannot ...
Page 141
... concerned with an atomic research project , but when we also find that his brother , Martin , is one of the scientists engaged on the project , so that Eliot has personal as well as official knowledge of what is going on , one becomes a ...
... concerned with an atomic research project , but when we also find that his brother , Martin , is one of the scientists engaged on the project , so that Eliot has personal as well as official knowledge of what is going on , one becomes a ...
Page 146
... concerned with a different set of events . Thus , by cross - referring between The Light and the Dark , The New Men and Homecomings , one can work out that in the autumn of 1941 Eliot was falling in love with Margaret Davidson ...
... concerned with a different set of events . Thus , by cross - referring between The Light and the Dark , The New Men and Homecomings , one can work out that in the autumn of 1941 Eliot was falling in love with Margaret Davidson ...
Contents
Preface 74 | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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