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... creation is an individual achievement . It is legitimate to look upon a writer as a creature of his age , owing much to it , being conditioned by its climate of thought and opinion , and speaking in the idiom of the age . On the other ...
... creation is an individual achievement . It is legitimate to look upon a writer as a creature of his age , owing much to it , being conditioned by its climate of thought and opinion , and speaking in the idiom of the age . On the other ...
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... creation . All that we can say is that both the external world and the poet's own inner life are somehow involved in the ' mystery ' of poetic creation . Quite obviously there are innumerable ways in which the two elements the world and ...
... creation . All that we can say is that both the external world and the poet's own inner life are somehow involved in the ' mystery ' of poetic creation . Quite obviously there are innumerable ways in which the two elements the world and ...
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... creation ; but neither could mere new - fangled eccentricity . People began to admire the clas- sics for the right reasons , and to look for real literary merit , rather than mere originality in theme or acceptable morality in contem ...
... creation ; but neither could mere new - fangled eccentricity . People began to admire the clas- sics for the right reasons , and to look for real literary merit , rather than mere originality in theme or acceptable morality in contem ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF LITERATURE AND THe | 3 |
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE | 21 |
BACKGROUNDS CLASSICAL AND CHRISTIAN | 42 |
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