The Story of English LiteratureMacmillan, 1931 - 624 páginas The function of an introduction to English literature is to interest students in the content and spirit of great books and their relation to their times and to one another. |
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... characters must become more real , more intimately known to us , from page to page ; and the relation between these characters , their effect upon one another's lives , becomes the really absorbing thing . The novelist does not have to ...
... characters must become more real , more intimately known to us , from page to page ; and the relation between these characters , their effect upon one another's lives , becomes the really absorbing thing . The novelist does not have to ...
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... characters . They are not real people in the way that Jane Austen's people are real . Hers , though they are often foolish and occasionally disagreeable , are entirely normal and sane . When you turn from Jane Austen to Dickens , you ...
... characters . They are not real people in the way that Jane Austen's people are real . Hers , though they are often foolish and occasionally disagreeable , are entirely normal and sane . When you turn from Jane Austen to Dickens , you ...
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... Characters of Shakespeare's Plays ( 1817 ) and Lectures on the English Comic Writers ( 1819 ) . Here is no elaborate balancing of pros and cons , no disin- terested " judicial " criticism . Hazlitt's heart is in it . " This is my ...
... Characters of Shakespeare's Plays ( 1817 ) and Lectures on the English Comic Writers ( 1819 ) . Here is no elaborate balancing of pros and cons , no disin- terested " judicial " criticism . Hazlitt's heart is in it . " This is my ...
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THE BEGINNINGS OF LITERATURE IN ENGLAND | 3 |
CHAUCER AND HIS TIMES | 27 |
27 | 44 |
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