The Story of English LiteratureMacmillan, 1932 - 624 páginas |
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... prose had no such tradition , enjoyed no such standing , offered no such incentive . As an art , as a way of getting something not only intelligibly said , but also beautifully said , it was just beginning to find itself . But ...
... prose had no such tradition , enjoyed no such standing , offered no such incentive . As an art , as a way of getting something not only intelligibly said , but also beautifully said , it was just beginning to find itself . But ...
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... prose to a design , attempting to put it on a par with poetry as an instrument of beauty . In a time when poetry was looked upon as the one art that really mattered , and when prose was generally cumbrous and formless , that is the ...
... prose to a design , attempting to put it on a par with poetry as an instrument of beauty . In a time when poetry was looked upon as the one art that really mattered , and when prose was generally cumbrous and formless , that is the ...
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... prose a landmark ? Why is Dryden called " the Father of Modern Prose " ? Here and there before Dryden's day , men wrote plain , simple , vigorous prose . But it was generally because they were writing for plain people , as Bunyan did ...
... prose a landmark ? Why is Dryden called " the Father of Modern Prose " ? Here and there before Dryden's day , men wrote plain , simple , vigorous prose . But it was generally because they were writing for plain people , as Bunyan did ...
Términos y frases comunes
Addison adventure Anglo-Saxons Ballads BAYEUX TAPESTRY beauty began Ben Jonson Beowulf Browning's Bunyan Byron called century characters Chaucer's Christian Church court death delight doth drama dream Dryden Elizabethan England English English poetry essay eyes Faerie Queene fair fancy feeling Forsyte Saga hand happy Hardy's heart heaven human imagination Jane Austen John Keats King King Arthur Kipling knights Lady land literature live London look Lord Lycidas Milton mind miracle plays mood narrative nature never novelist novels phrase plot poems poetry poets Pope prose Puritan Queen rhyme rich romantic Rudyard Kipling satire says Shakespeare Shelley shepherds sing Sir Roger songs sort soul Spectator Spenser spirit stanzas story sweet Tatler tell Tennyson thee themes things Thomas Hardy thou thought tion turn Vanity Fair verse vivid words Wordsworth write written wrote young