Eighteenth Century Poetry & ProseLouis Ignatius Bredvold, Alan Dugald McKillop, Lois Whitney, John Marshall Bullitt A broad survey of eighteenth-century poetry. |
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Page 160
... DEFOE ( 1660 ? -1731 ) Millions of readers know Defoe only as the name on the title - page of one of the world's most successful books . But Defoe's own history , obscure though it still is in some of its phases , is in itself a sort of ...
... DEFOE ( 1660 ? -1731 ) Millions of readers know Defoe only as the name on the title - page of one of the world's most successful books . But Defoe's own history , obscure though it still is in some of its phases , is in itself a sort of ...
Page 161
... Defoe's deficiencies in education and culture are apparent when we compare him with Addison and Steele , who were as deeply interested in the middle class as he , but whose work has a charm and urbanity , a richness of allusion , and a ...
... Defoe's deficiencies in education and culture are apparent when we compare him with Addison and Steele , who were as deeply interested in the middle class as he , but whose work has a charm and urbanity , a richness of allusion , and a ...
Page 178
... Defoe had been reading and assembling ma- terials on the plague , and possibly fear of declining interest in the subject hurried him in the writing . At any rate the style is more effective than it is correct , and the structure after ...
... Defoe had been reading and assembling ma- terials on the plague , and possibly fear of declining interest in the subject hurried him in the writing . At any rate the style is more effective than it is correct , and the structure after ...
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