British Writers: William Langland to the English Bible, Volumes 1-8This collection of critical essays covers hundreds of writers who have made significant contributions to British, Irish, and Commonwealth literature from the 14th century to the present day. The contributors analyze many individual works and engage the reader withtheir distinctive themes and stylistic. Introductory essays and chronological tables open each volume and provide historical background. |
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... gives an impression of move- ment and noise , assembling details into a general and convincing pattern of city life , ironically mock- ing , in the process , aspects of heroic and pastoral poetry . The rhythm and the rhymes give an ...
... gives an impression of move- ment and noise , assembling details into a general and convincing pattern of city life , ironically mock- ing , in the process , aspects of heroic and pastoral poetry . The rhythm and the rhymes give an ...
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... give you some pleasure in fiction , which , it is plain , gives you the greatest in reality ; or else Your ROYAL HIGHNESS would not ( as you always have done ) make it your daily practice . THE BEGGAR'S OPERA In the four years that ...
... give you some pleasure in fiction , which , it is plain , gives you the greatest in reality ; or else Your ROYAL HIGHNESS would not ( as you always have done ) make it your daily practice . THE BEGGAR'S OPERA In the four years that ...
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... gives . But when he realizes that he has given away " his last sou , " and that a pauvre honteux must go without , " Good God ! said I - and I have not one single sou to give him - But you have a thousand ! cried all the powers of ...
... gives . But when he realizes that he has given away " his last sou , " and that a pauvre honteux must go without , " Good God ! said I - and I have not one single sou to give him - But you have a thousand ! cried all the powers of ...
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