English Critical Texts: 16th Century to 20th CenturyDennis Joseph Enright, Ernst De Chickera Oxford University Press, 1962 - 398 pages |
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Page 195
... whole attention of the reader to itself , disjoins it from its context , and makes it a separate whole , instead of a harmoniz- 185 ing part ; and on the other hand , to an unsustained composition , from which the reader collects ...
... whole attention of the reader to itself , disjoins it from its context , and makes it a separate whole , instead of a harmoniz- 185 ing part ; and on the other hand , to an unsustained composition , from which the reader collects ...
Page 289
... whole hog . The novel is the one bright book of life . Books are not life . They are only tremulations on the ether . But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble . Which is more than poetry , philosophy , science ...
... whole hog . The novel is the one bright book of life . Books are not life . They are only tremulations on the ether . But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble . Which is more than poetry , philosophy , science ...
Page 388
... whole of it ; and the component incidents must be so arranged that if one of them be transposed or removed , the unity of the whole is dis- located and destroyed . For if the presence or absence of a thing makes no visible difference ...
... whole of it ; and the component incidents must be so arranged that if one of them be transposed or removed , the unity of the whole is dis- located and destroyed . For if the presence or absence of a thing makes no visible difference ...
Contents
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy | 50 |
An Essay on Criticism III | 111 |
Preface to Shakespeare | 131 |
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