A People's History of English and American LiteratureWith special emphasis on literary merit, this book chronicles the literature of the great nations of Britain and America from their earliest origins to the twenty-first century. |
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Page 107
... never attracted the multitude . His career as a writer amazingly spanned some sixty - eight years from 1795 to 1863. In that time he almost never varied from a pure , classical style of writing which may have prevented him a wider ...
... never attracted the multitude . His career as a writer amazingly spanned some sixty - eight years from 1795 to 1863. In that time he almost never varied from a pure , classical style of writing which may have prevented him a wider ...
Page 147
... never harden into sight , Will never penetrate your brain With overtones like the blunt rain . The light would show ( if it could harden ) Eternities of kitchen - garden , Cockscomb flowers that none will pluck , And wooden flowers that ...
... never harden into sight , Will never penetrate your brain With overtones like the blunt rain . The light would show ( if it could harden ) Eternities of kitchen - garden , Cockscomb flowers that none will pluck , And wooden flowers that ...
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... never again able to equal the intensity of his early plays , and though in his attempts , he ranged far afield from bourgeois portrayals , the same vitality never seemed to surface . Lillian Hellman also wrote significant pieces on ...
... never again able to equal the intensity of his early plays , and though in his attempts , he ranged far afield from bourgeois portrayals , the same vitality never seemed to surface . Lillian Hellman also wrote significant pieces on ...
Contents
The AngloSaxon or Old English Period 4501066 | 1 |
The Revival of Learning and the Renaissance 14851660 | 11 |
The Puritan Interlude 16401660 | 23 |
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