A Guide to English Literature, Volume 3Cassell, 1964 |
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... literary tradition and to define the high standards that this tradition implies . At the same time it is also important that this feeling for a living literature and for the values it embodies should be given as wide a currency as ...
... literary tradition and to define the high standards that this tradition implies . At the same time it is also important that this feeling for a living literature and for the values it embodies should be given as wide a currency as ...
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... literary survey of the period , describing the general characte- ristics of the period's literature in such a way as to enable the reader to trace its growth and to keep his bearings . The aim of this section is to answer such questions ...
... literary survey of the period , describing the general characte- ristics of the period's literature in such a way as to enable the reader to trace its growth and to keep his bearings . The aim of this section is to answer such questions ...
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... literary change into a simple succession of movements and ' reactions ' , and to remind us that in periods of heightened vitality developments in different directions often exist side by side.1 By no means all of what we now consider ...
... literary change into a simple succession of movements and ' reactions ' , and to remind us that in periods of heightened vitality developments in different directions often exist side by side.1 By no means all of what we now consider ...
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