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... writer was worth looking at who could not drag a complicated , ramifying simile through half a dozen pages at least . These artificialities lacked the saving grace of those of the Renaissance writers — their abounding vigour and their ...
... writer was worth looking at who could not drag a complicated , ramifying simile through half a dozen pages at least . These artificialities lacked the saving grace of those of the Renaissance writers — their abounding vigour and their ...
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... writers - including Molière , Diderot , and Flaubert - have remained out- side it ; while all the most fruitful developments in French literary theory have come about only after a bitter and desperate resistance on its part . On the ...
... writers - including Molière , Diderot , and Flaubert - have remained out- side it ; while all the most fruitful developments in French literary theory have come about only after a bitter and desperate resistance on its part . On the ...
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... writers was formed , united together by common aims , and destined to exercise an immense influence upon the development not only of French , but of European literature . For these reasons —for his almost unerring prescience in the ...
... writers was formed , united together by common aims , and destined to exercise an immense influence upon the development not only of French , but of European literature . For these reasons —for his almost unerring prescience in the ...
Contents
ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES | 7 |
THE AGE OF TRANSITION | 31 |
THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT | 142 |
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