A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... imagination over the intellectual life of the time , as of the fascination of medievalism over imagination itself . If he deceived many of his readers , his archaisms , as laboured as they are naïve , did not succeed in finding ...
... imagination over the intellectual life of the time , as of the fascination of medievalism over imagination itself . If he deceived many of his readers , his archaisms , as laboured as they are naïve , did not succeed in finding ...
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... imagination . For the theory of the importance of imagination , as a legiti- mate and fundamental part of all art , is now being gradually recognized , even while imagination itself is reviving as a living force . The aesthetics of the ...
... imagination . For the theory of the importance of imagination , as a legiti- mate and fundamental part of all art , is now being gradually recognized , even while imagination itself is reviving as a living force . The aesthetics of the ...
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... imagination . The beauty of the countryside , still treated in a very general way , by writers whose emotional style is detrimental to careful delineation , is now tending to become a popular subject in literature . But after the nature ...
... imagination . The beauty of the countryside , still treated in a very general way , by writers whose emotional style is detrimental to careful delineation , is now tending to become a popular subject in literature . But after the nature ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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