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... political thought , though there is acute awareness of social injustice in a play like Galsworthy's The Silver Box , and a feeling for current political issues in a novel like Angus Wilson's The Old Men at the Zoo ; and although fiction ...
... political thought , though there is acute awareness of social injustice in a play like Galsworthy's The Silver Box , and a feeling for current political issues in a novel like Angus Wilson's The Old Men at the Zoo ; and although fiction ...
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... politics . Political verse satire is , of course , a genre apart : but even there as in Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel - the politics of the time is adroitly fitted into a Biblical background , and the con- temporaneous is lifted into ...
... politics . Political verse satire is , of course , a genre apart : but even there as in Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel - the politics of the time is adroitly fitted into a Biblical background , and the con- temporaneous is lifted into ...
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... political commitment as against the negative commitment of retirement to an ivory tower — and yet as novelists they succeed only to the ex- tent they are able to lift their characters and situations above the political partisanship of ...
... political commitment as against the negative commitment of retirement to an ivory tower — and yet as novelists they succeed only to the ex- tent they are able to lift their characters and situations above the political partisanship of ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF LITERATURE AND THe | 3 |
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE | 21 |
BACKGROUNDS CLASSICAL AND CHRISTIAN | 42 |
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