The Literary Essay in EnglishGinn, 1923 - 260 pages |
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... early days when the English language , being rehabilitated after its long relegation under the Norman conquest as the vernac- ular of the unlettered poor , was so crude that even in- spired genius and genuine love could not write a ...
... early days when the English language , being rehabilitated after its long relegation under the Norman conquest as the vernac- ular of the unlettered poor , was so crude that even in- spired genius and genuine love could not write a ...
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... early English essayists was away from the subjective , just as poetry in the epic stage is less subjective than poetry in the later and lyric stage . Most objective essays are scientific and didactic . The purely scientific treatise ...
... early English essayists was away from the subjective , just as poetry in the epic stage is less subjective than poetry in the later and lyric stage . Most objective essays are scientific and didactic . The purely scientific treatise ...
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... EARLY HISTORY Though the essay as a distinct literary form dates only from Montaigne , it has a most worthy ancestry , traceable back to classical antiquity . Though Socrates left no books , we may read his speeches in the Memora- bilia ...
... EARLY HISTORY Though the essay as a distinct literary form dates only from Montaigne , it has a most worthy ancestry , traceable back to classical antiquity . Though Socrates left no books , we may read his speeches in the Memora- bilia ...
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... of journal popular in the early part of the nineteenth century , the magazine and the critical review , helped to further the distinction between the familiar essay on the 20 THE LITERARY ESSAY IN ENGLISH THE CLASSIC ESSAY.
... of journal popular in the early part of the nineteenth century , the magazine and the critical review , helped to further the distinction between the familiar essay on the 20 THE LITERARY ESSAY IN ENGLISH THE CLASSIC ESSAY.
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... into prominence in London as the son of the lord - keeper of the privy seal . After passing his early years in the court , where he won the attention of the redoubtable queen , he went , at twelve years 28 THE LITERARY ESSAY IN ENGLISH.
... into prominence in London as the son of the lord - keeper of the privy seal . After passing his early years in the court , where he won the attention of the redoubtable queen , he went , at twelve years 28 THE LITERARY ESSAY IN ENGLISH.
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