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Page 227
... difference between the ac- cumulation of facts and their mastery in some sort of synthesis , a difference which is fundamental at all times and among all peoples . Just as these writers sought for fundamental principles of thinking and ...
... difference between the ac- cumulation of facts and their mastery in some sort of synthesis , a difference which is fundamental at all times and among all peoples . Just as these writers sought for fundamental principles of thinking and ...
Page 246
... difference between poetry , i.e. imagina- tive literature , and history . What we have said already makes it further clear that a poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could and would happen either probably or ...
... difference between poetry , i.e. imagina- tive literature , and history . What we have said already makes it further clear that a poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could and would happen either probably or ...
Page 328
... difference between the crude untouched snapshot and the artist's portrait is the difference between the old and the new . All " sensible " people have a profound distrust for art : it is too revealing , too painful , too fascinating ...
... difference between the crude untouched snapshot and the artist's portrait is the difference between the old and the new . All " sensible " people have a profound distrust for art : it is too revealing , too painful , too fascinating ...
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action Ęschylus audience ballad beauty Ben Jonson characters charm classic climax comedy complete criticism Darcy death developed dominance drama dramatic literature dramatist Edipus eighteenth century Elizabeth Elizabethan emotional English literature epic essay essayist experience exposition expression fate feel fiction George Eliot Greek tragedy Hamlet heroic heroic couplet human Iago iambic iambic pentameter ideas illusion imaginative important incident influence intense interest King literary lives lyric lyrical poetry Matthew Arnold Milton mind modern narrative neo-classic never novel novelist Othello Pater pattern period play plot poem poet poetic poetry popular present Pride and Prejudice prose reader Renaissance rhyme rhythm romance satire scene sense Shakespeare social sometimes song sonnet soul speech spirit stage stanza story structure student style sweet Tale Tartuffe thee theme thou thought tion trimeter unity verse vivid Walter Pater women words writers
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Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College Harvard University. Library. Lamont Library,Lamont Library No preview available - 1953 |