British Writers: William Langland to the English Bible, Volumes 1-8Scribner, 1980 - 400 páginas This collection of critical essays covers hundreds of writers who have made significant contributions to British, Irish, and Commonwealth literature from the 14th century to the present day. The contributors analyze many individual works and engage the reader withtheir distinctive themes and stylistic. Introductory essays and chronological tables open each volume and provide historical background. |
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... story that each tells is in many respects the same . What is the story that Crabbe has to tell , and is it true to life ? These are the questions one must answer . The failure to do so has led to much misun- derstanding about his work ...
... story that each tells is in many respects the same . What is the story that Crabbe has to tell , and is it true to life ? These are the questions one must answer . The failure to do so has led to much misun- derstanding about his work ...
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... story . The reader has seen already , in the story of Jachin , the parish clerk in The Borough , something of Crabbe's developing sense of characterization , but the story that illustrates this best is " Peter Grimes " ( letter 22 ) ...
... story . The reader has seen already , in the story of Jachin , the parish clerk in The Borough , something of Crabbe's developing sense of characterization , but the story that illustrates this best is " Peter Grimes " ( letter 22 ) ...
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... story on the move . There is some awk- wardness - Frankenstein is inclined to " gnash his teeth " too often , and where vivid detail is required , the narrative often lapses into abstractions . These abstractions are sometimes ...
... story on the move . There is some awk- wardness - Frankenstein is inclined to " gnash his teeth " too often , and where vivid detail is required , the narrative often lapses into abstractions . These abstractions are sometimes ...
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Addison Alexander Pope Augustan BIBLIOGRAPHY biographical Blake's Boswell's Burke Burke's Burns Cambridge character Clarissa Collins comedy comic Cowper Crabbe Crabbe's Critical Crusoe Daniel Defoe death Defoe Defoe's Dublin Edinburgh edition Edmund Burke eighteenth century England English Literature Essays F. A. Pottle father fiction friends George George Crabbe Gibbon Goldsmith Gothic novel Gray Henry Fielding History human imagination intro Ireland James Boswell John Jonathan Swift Journal Lady later Laurence Sterne letters literary living London Lord ment mind moral nature never novelist Oliver Goldsmith Oxford Pamela passage passion play poem poet Poetical poetry political Pope's prose published reader repr Richardson romantic Samuel Johnson Samuel Richardson satire scene Scottish sense sentimental Sheridan Smollett social society song Sterne Sterne's story Tatler Thomas thought tion Tobias Smollett verse virtue vols Walpole William Blake writing written wrote York young