A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... artistic qualities of style in the drama which existed about 1580. The plays he had in mind were often ludicrous in form ; the formula to which the poets conformed , one which masterpieces were soon to justify , suffered from this ...
... artistic qualities of style in the drama which existed about 1580. The plays he had in mind were often ludicrous in form ; the formula to which the poets conformed , one which masterpieces were soon to justify , suffered from this ...
Page 995
... artistic and human vocation . They are indebted to it for the assurance and authority of their doctrine , for what establishes them as the long - expected theorists and prophets . The spiritual quality of the eminent poets who thus ...
... artistic and human vocation . They are indebted to it for the assurance and authority of their doctrine , for what establishes them as the long - expected theorists and prophets . The spiritual quality of the eminent poets who thus ...
Page 1280
... artistic endeavour , with a different aim - that he thinks he discovers its focus . Little consistent as it is , decadentism at least contains the germs of many further growths . It is a confused tentative medley of the tendencies which ...
... artistic endeavour , with a different aim - that he thinks he discovers its focus . Little consistent as it is , decadentism at least contains the germs of many further growths . It is a confused tentative medley of the tendencies which ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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