Specimens of Modern English Literary CriticismWilliam Tenney Brewster Macmillan, 1925 - 379 páginas |
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... genius , and that many critics are merely commercial . All this means that criticism is , in the first instance , merely the 1 Maitland , Life of Leslie Stephen , p . 14 . 2 J. W. Mackail , The Life and Letters of William Morris , Vol ...
... genius , and that many critics are merely commercial . All this means that criticism is , in the first instance , merely the 1 Maitland , Life of Leslie Stephen , p . 14 . 2 J. W. Mackail , The Life and Letters of William Morris , Vol ...
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... the distinguished Eng- lish critics of the first quarter of the nineteenth century for the assumption that Shakespeare is of unparalleled genius . Indeed , - the critics who make us see things in a different xxiv INTRODUCTION.
... the distinguished Eng- lish critics of the first quarter of the nineteenth century for the assumption that Shakespeare is of unparalleled genius . Indeed , - the critics who make us see things in a different xxiv INTRODUCTION.
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... genius : the vein of the most nervous common - sense and pithy assertion , with an undercurrent of intense passion , the more impressive because it is never allowed to exhale in mere rhetoric . Swift's success , the dauntless front ...
... genius : the vein of the most nervous common - sense and pithy assertion , with an undercurrent of intense passion , the more impressive because it is never allowed to exhale in mere rhetoric . Swift's success , the dauntless front ...
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... genius that had been announced in the earlier critical paper on his " Wilhelm Meister , " it retains something of the malice of that paper . When we pass to the papers of historical description , it is hardly a surprise to find that it ...
... genius that had been announced in the earlier critical paper on his " Wilhelm Meister , " it retains something of the malice of that paper . When we pass to the papers of historical description , it is hardly a surprise to find that it ...
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... genius ; and these were about a century apart . What makes them specially rememberable is the fact that each of these brilliant clusters had gathered separately about that man as their central pivot who even apart from this relation to ...
... genius ; and these were about a century apart . What makes them specially rememberable is the fact that each of these brilliant clusters had gathered separately about that man as their central pivot who even apart from this relation to ...
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