From Wordsworth to SpenderPaul Robert Lieder Houghton Mifflin, 1950 Readings representative of major British authors. For contents and other editions, see Author Catalog. |
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Page xviii
... past ages is no mere adventure in antiquarianism . An intelligent knowledge of the past is the best means of enlarging our own lives and the best equipment for solving the problems of the present and planning for the future . In our ...
... past ages is no mere adventure in antiquarianism . An intelligent knowledge of the past is the best means of enlarging our own lives and the best equipment for solving the problems of the present and planning for the future . In our ...
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... past . He also wrote in the current forms - drama , novel , short story , history , biography , essay , much of it journalism in its immediate " pot - boiling " type , but throughout he maintained a consistent attitude of defending the past ...
... past . He also wrote in the current forms - drama , novel , short story , history , biography , essay , much of it journalism in its immediate " pot - boiling " type , but throughout he maintained a consistent attitude of defending the past ...
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... past ages to live in . And modern literature , with all its imperfections , has the same hold on us and the same fascination . It is like a rela- tion whom we snub and scarify daily , but , after all , cannot do without . It has the ...
... past ages to live in . And modern literature , with all its imperfections , has the same hold on us and the same fascination . It is like a rela- tion whom we snub and scarify daily , but , after all , cannot do without . It has the ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH | 14 |
nary Splendor and Beauty | 60 |
Copyright | |
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