The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 12Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller University Press, 1970 - English literature |
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... effect in his later poetry . In its tolerant , almost genial , portrayal of the social licence of Italian burgess life , Beppo is the direct descendant of the Italian novella of the early renascence , while , in its truth to reality and ...
... effect in his later poetry . In its tolerant , almost genial , portrayal of the social licence of Italian burgess life , Beppo is the direct descendant of the Italian novella of the early renascence , while , in its truth to reality and ...
Page 56
... effect in prose narrative , but Byron was the first Englishman to make a free use of it in verse . Here , again , he was under the spell of the Italians , Pulci , Berni and Casti , though the wit and humour and caustic criticism of life ...
... effect in prose narrative , but Byron was the first Englishman to make a free use of it in verse . Here , again , he was under the spell of the Italians , Pulci , Berni and Casti , though the wit and humour and caustic criticism of life ...
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... effect upon the whole ; and , in a novel dealing with pride and with prejudice , the study of such toadyism and such stupidity as that of Mr Collins gives and gains incalculable force . Jane Austen's next novel , Mansfield Park , is ...
... effect upon the whole ; and , in a novel dealing with pride and with prejudice , the study of such toadyism and such stupidity as that of Mr Collins gives and gains incalculable force . Jane Austen's next novel , Mansfield Park , is ...
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