A Guide to English Literature, Volume 3Cassell, 1964 |
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... literature and for the values it embodies should be given as wide a currency as possible , and that literature both today's literature and yesterday's should have a real and not merely a nominal existence among a comparatively large ...
... literature and for the values it embodies should be given as wide a currency as possible , and that literature both today's literature and yesterday's should have a real and not merely a nominal existence among a comparatively large ...
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... literature . ( ii ) A 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 ...
... literature . ( ii ) A 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 ...
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... literature . Scholars may trace the influence of Italian and French sonneteers on English Court poets ; they may count up the number of transla- tions of du Bartas and Montaigne ; it hardly alters the general pic- ture of an age when ...
... literature . Scholars may trace the influence of Italian and French sonneteers on English Court poets ; they may count up the number of transla- tions of du Bartas and Montaigne ; it hardly alters the general pic- ture of an age when ...
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