The Study and Appreciation of Literature |
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... literature is obviously that literature which supplies the most satis- faction to our highest needs . For some readers the best literature is that which most accurately reflects their own interpretations of life . It presents for them a ...
... literature is obviously that literature which supplies the most satis- faction to our highest needs . For some readers the best literature is that which most accurately reflects their own interpretations of life . It presents for them a ...
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... literature is littered with the wrecks of " useful " books which once seemed all important . They did their duty , they had their influence , they assisted in social reform , and they passed into the realm of forgotten books . If literature ...
... literature is littered with the wrecks of " useful " books which once seemed all important . They did their duty , they had their influence , they assisted in social reform , and they passed into the realm of forgotten books . If literature ...
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... literature , any more than the scenario of a moving picture is literature . Though it must be said that by no means every successful play has value as dramatic literature , it must , however , be admitted that every successful piece of ...
... literature , any more than the scenario of a moving picture is literature . Though it must be said that by no means every successful play has value as dramatic literature , it must , however , be admitted that every successful piece of ...
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action Æschylus 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 |