A Critical History of English Literature, Volume 1Ronald Press Company, 1960 |
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... sense the first real novel in English : it tells a love story with a delicacy of psychological awareness , a bril- liant handling of detail , a firm sense of structure , and a mastery of controlled digression . The verse - which is the ...
... sense the first real novel in English : it tells a love story with a delicacy of psychological awareness , a bril- liant handling of detail , a firm sense of structure , and a mastery of controlled digression . The verse - which is the ...
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... sense - are taking Satan's view as Milton saw it . All great works of literature contain more than their ostensible ... sense of man's looking back or forward to a golden age coupled with the knowledge that , partly because of the very ...
... sense - are taking Satan's view as Milton saw it . All great works of literature contain more than their ostensible ... sense of man's looking back or forward to a golden age coupled with the knowledge that , partly because of the very ...
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... sense of lying below them and in the other sense of awaiting their conquest of it . The simple phrase , " so late their happy seat , " renews the elegiac tone with memories of lost felicity . But natural tears give way to the pioneering ...
... sense of lying below them and in the other sense of awaiting their conquest of it . The simple phrase , " so late their happy seat , " renews the elegiac tone with memories of lost felicity . But natural tears give way to the pioneering ...
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CHAPTER PAGE 1 ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE | 3 |
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THE VICTORIAN POETS 993 | 13 |
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