The Study and Appreciation of Literature |
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... student of literature wants to come as near as possible to the mind of an author . In reading Hamlet , for instance , the student is not satisfied merely to have his mind stirred by the pathos of Ophelia and the melancholy of Hamlet ...
... student of literature wants to come as near as possible to the mind of an author . In reading Hamlet , for instance , the student is not satisfied merely to have his mind stirred by the pathos of Ophelia and the melancholy of Hamlet ...
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... student , then , has two aspects of style to consider : the personality of the writer and the means by which that personality is presented to the reader . The first requires insight , penetration , and exactness of definition . The ...
... student , then , has two aspects of style to consider : the personality of the writer and the means by which that personality is presented to the reader . The first requires insight , penetration , and exactness of definition . The ...
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... student ought to be a sense for style , the ability to feel the difference in texture and quality in the English prose style of various periods . Of course this ability is useful only if the student tries to understand the relation of ...
... student ought to be a sense for style , the ability to feel the difference in texture and quality in the English prose style of various periods . Of course this ability is useful only if the student tries to understand the relation 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
References to this book
Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College Harvard University. Library. Lamont Library,Lamont Library No preview available - 1953 |