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... artistic ; it was Rabelais who showed that it possessed another quality - that it was a mighty instrument of thought . The intellectual effort of the Middle Ages had very rarely clothed itself in an artistic literary form . Men laughed ...
... artistic ; it was Rabelais who showed that it possessed another quality - that it was a mighty instrument of thought . The intellectual effort of the Middle Ages had very rarely clothed itself in an artistic literary form . Men laughed ...
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... artistic intention , was nevertheless a dead thing on the stage ; while Hardy's melodramas , burst- ing as they were with vitality , were too barbaric to rank as serious works of art . Corneille combined art with vitality , and for the ...
... artistic intention , was nevertheless a dead thing on the stage ; while Hardy's melodramas , burst- ing as they were with vitality , were too barbaric to rank as serious works of art . Corneille combined art with vitality , and for the ...
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... artistic , he made the literary drama of Jodelle alive . Probably it was fortunate that he did so ; for he thus led the way straight to the most characteristic product of the French genius - the tragedy of Racine . With Racine , the ...
... artistic , he made the literary drama of Jodelle alive . Probably it was fortunate that he did so ; for he thus led the way straight to the most characteristic product of the French genius - the tragedy of Racine . With Racine , the ...
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ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES | 7 |
THE AGE OF TRANSITION | 31 |
THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT | 142 |
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