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The Life and Poetical Works of George Crabbe

George Crabbe - 1901 - 624 pages
...might undertake, a unity of subject, and that arrangement of my materials which connects the whole anil gives additional interest to every part ;' in fact,...which every character, in a greater or less degree, should conspire to accomplish." In a Poem of this nature, the principal and inferior characters in...
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Poems, Volume 2

George Crabbe - 1906 - 526 pages
...arrangement of my materials which connedts the whole and gives additional interest to every part ; in fa6t, if not an Epic Poem, strictly so denominated, yet...which every character, in a greater or less degree, should conspire to accomplish. In a Poem of this nature, the principal and inferior characters in some...
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Poems, Volume 2

George Crabbe - 1906 - 532 pages
...connects the whole and gives additional interest to every part ; in facl, if not an Epic Poem, striftly so denominated, yet such composition as would possess...which every character, in a greater or less degree, should conspire to accomplish. In a Poem of this nature, the principal and inferior characlers in some...
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A History of English Poetry, Volume 6

William John Courthope - 1910 - 526 pages
...unnaturally, supposed the reviewer to be speaking " if not of an Epic poem strictly so denominated, yet of such composition as would possess a regular succession...which every character, in a greater or less degree, should conspire to accomplish."2 In publishing.after no long interval, the Tales which followed The...
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The Poetical Works of George Crabbe

George Crabbe - 1914 - 634 pages
...to reject, and yet impossible to follow it ; and in this predicament I conceive myself to be placed. There has been recommended to me, and from authority...which every character, in a greater or less degree, should conspire to accomplish. In a Poem of this nature, the principal and inferior characters in some...
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A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880, Volume 1

Oliver Elton - 1920 - 482 pages
...development is a fore-shortened and dramatic life-history. He considers it as a kind of petty epic, with a ' regular succession of events, and a catastrophe...which every character, in a greater or less degree, should conspire to accomplish.' But instead of expanding this framework, and writing a long novel in...
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A Survey of English Literature, 1780-1830, Volume 1

Oliver Elton - 1924 - 482 pages
...development is a fore-shortened and dramatic life-history. He considers it as a kind of petty epic, with a ' regular succession of events, and a catastrophe...which every character, in a greater or less degree, should conspire to accomplish.' But instead of expanding this framework, and writing a long novel in...
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Poems

524 pages
...to reject, and yet impossible to follow it ; and in this predicament I conceive myself to be placed. There has been recommended to me, and from authority...which every character, in a greater or less degree, should conspire to accomplish. In a Poem of this nature, the principal and inferior characters in some...
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