British Writers: Retrospective supplement, Volume 2Jay Parini Twenty-two of the most studied and most popular writers in British literature are reexamined in this second retrospective supplement to the British Writers Series. Authors covered include Jane Austen, Chaucer, Dickens, T. S. Eliot, Tom Stoppard, Oscar Wilde and others. |
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... spiritual quest remains in the fourfold level of meaning common to the medieval understanding . The pilgrimage to Can- terbury can be seen firstly as a literal journey ; secondly , in a metaphorical sense as the journey of life ...
... spiritual quest remains in the fourfold level of meaning common to the medieval understanding . The pilgrimage to Can- terbury can be seen firstly as a literal journey ; secondly , in a metaphorical sense as the journey of life ...
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... spiritual resources of her own , cannot confess her mistake and lose the financial security her marriage has brought her mother and younger sisters . Her pride is all she has , and her demonic husband ( a character whom Eliot leaves ...
... spiritual resources of her own , cannot confess her mistake and lose the financial security her marriage has brought her mother and younger sisters . Her pride is all she has , and her demonic husband ( a character whom Eliot leaves ...
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... spiritual recovery , however , are two people with vested interests in their own concep- tions of the famous Querry : Montagu Parkinson , the tabloid journalist , who wants to publicize this celebrity - turned- " saint , " and Ryker , a ...
... spiritual recovery , however , are two people with vested interests in their own concep- tions of the famous Querry : Montagu Parkinson , the tabloid journalist , who wants to publicize this celebrity - turned- " saint , " and Ryker , a ...
Contents
Contents | xiii |
List of Contributors | lxix |
ROBERT BROWNING Julie Hearn | 17 |
Copyright | |
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