Literary Essays25 essays from the Victorian and Edwardian literary critic. |
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... literature alone , was there ever a time when the critic's functions were more grievously and shamelessly mishandled ? When Dryden or Johnson wrote of literature , they wrote of it as an art ; but the Victorian critic had a different ...
... literature alone , was there ever a time when the critic's functions were more grievously and shamelessly mishandled ? When Dryden or Johnson wrote of literature , they wrote of it as an art ; but the Victorian critic had a different ...
Page 243
... literature is unemotional . It so happened that the emotions of those days did not seize naturally upon their commonest and most widespread vehicle - the art of writing ; they turned instead towards the more recondite arts of painting ...
... literature is unemotional . It so happened that the emotions of those days did not seize naturally upon their commonest and most widespread vehicle - the art of writing ; they turned instead towards the more recondite arts of painting ...
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... literature , and freethinking ; the first never did , and never will , possess me ; of the two others I have long been tired . Freethinking is for one's self , surely not for society ; besides , one has settled one's way of thinking ...
... literature , and freethinking ; the first never did , and never will , possess me ; of the two others I have long been tired . Freethinking is for one's self , surely not for society ; besides , one has settled one's way of thinking ...
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SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
RABELAIS The New Statesman Feb 16 1918 CHARAC | 31 |
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