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... prose . Its appearance there is , for the most part , in interpolated poetry . There are , to be sure , a few prose passages , a few lines from the letters , a few entries in the notebooks which reflect the mood . But to Arnold it was ...
... prose . Its appearance there is , for the most part , in interpolated poetry . There are , to be sure , a few prose passages , a few lines from the letters , a few entries in the notebooks which reflect the mood . But to Arnold it was ...
Page 124
... prose is on the whole more peculiar to his son . In Eugénie de Guérin ( 1863 ) , Arnold gives us his concep- tion of an ideal saint ; and the result is , in effect , a thumbnail sketch of Piccarda : The ideal saint is a nature like ...
... prose is on the whole more peculiar to his son . In Eugénie de Guérin ( 1863 ) , Arnold gives us his concep- tion of an ideal saint ; and the result is , in effect , a thumbnail sketch of Piccarda : The ideal saint is a nature like ...
Page 235
... prose . And so Dryden and Pope , he says , are classics not of poetry but of prose . But Arnold , here , is using " prose " in a narrow sense . He seems to mean " prosaic . " For he himself admits that some prose has other qualities ...
... prose . And so Dryden and Pope , he says , are classics not of poetry but of prose . But Arnold , here , is using " prose " in a narrow sense . He seems to mean " prosaic . " For he himself admits that some prose has other qualities ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE Introduction | 13 |
The Pathos of Young Death | 34 |
The Manifold Sorrow of Man | 52 |
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