A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS ( 1590-1616 ) 1. The Advent of Shakespeare . - The relation of Shake- speare's plays to contemporary drama is the first problem connected with them which confronts the historian of litera- ture , and the only one he ...
... SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS ( 1590-1616 ) 1. The Advent of Shakespeare . - The relation of Shake- speare's plays to contemporary drama is the first problem connected with them which confronts the historian of litera- ture , and the only one he ...
Page 425
... Shakespeare along this path , but he , having more exact knowledge , was too much preoccupied with the painting of curious customs and with his own learned details to retain Shakespeare's broad epic manner . He was too ready to ...
... Shakespeare along this path , but he , having more exact knowledge , was too much preoccupied with the painting of curious customs and with his own learned details to retain Shakespeare's broad epic manner . He was too ready to ...
Page 426
... Shakespeare , calling him ' sweetest Shakespeare , Fancy's child , ' who warbled forth his native wood - notes wild . ' Literary judgments often rest on an antithesis . We can understand how in men's minds the learned and laborious ...
... Shakespeare , calling him ' sweetest Shakespeare , Fancy's child , ' who warbled forth his native wood - notes wild . ' Literary judgments often rest on an antithesis . We can understand how in men's minds the learned and laborious ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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