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Page 37
... true ; it may even be true , as McDowall contends , that " realism usually grows grim by reaction against a sentimental view of things , and this is illustrated in Crabbe's case ; he intentionally darkened his Village to counteract ...
... true ; it may even be true , as McDowall contends , that " realism usually grows grim by reaction against a sentimental view of things , and this is illustrated in Crabbe's case ; he intentionally darkened his Village to counteract ...
Page 62
... true — and it is no less true that the passage which I commended is of no great merit , because the description , at the best of no high order , is in the instance of the apothecary , inconsistent , that is , false . It , no doubt ...
... true — and it is no less true that the passage which I commended is of no great merit , because the description , at the best of no high order , is in the instance of the apothecary , inconsistent , that is , false . It , no doubt ...
Page 162
... true of more than one eighteenth - century author , that the fluctuations of opinion as to Crabbe's value as a poet interestingly reflect the changes in literary temper during the years since his death - a point which I should think ...
... true of more than one eighteenth - century author , that the fluctuations of opinion as to Crabbe's value as a poet interestingly reflect the changes in literary temper during the years since his death - a point which I should think ...
Contents
CRABBE AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 1 |
CRABBE IN THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT | 57 |
CRABBE AS NATURE POET | 88 |
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