The Critical Temper: Victorian literature and American literatureMartin Tucker Ungar, 1969 - American literature |
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... less mannered and less voluminous , has withstood change of taste and fashion better than much of theirs . But the poetry is only a part of his varied achievement , and Arnold the prose - writer is not well known . In his Harvard ...
... less mannered and less voluminous , has withstood change of taste and fashion better than much of theirs . But the poetry is only a part of his varied achievement , and Arnold the prose - writer is not well known . In his Harvard ...
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... less violent than that of Stephen Crane or Jack London , the criticism is scarcely less fundamental . . . . [ They ] portray a society har- assed by the irresponsibility of acquisitive capitalism , the evils of indus- trialism , and the ...
... less violent than that of Stephen Crane or Jack London , the criticism is scarcely less fundamental . . . . [ They ] portray a society har- assed by the irresponsibility of acquisitive capitalism , the evils of indus- trialism , and the ...
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... less delicate expositions more or less bluntly censure James for not having stayed in America and become a thoroughly American novelist . He should have devoted his genius to his own country and inaugurated modern American — the first ...
... less delicate expositions more or less bluntly censure James for not having stayed in America and become a thoroughly American novelist . He should have devoted his genius to his own country and inaugurated modern American — the first ...
Contents
Matthew Arnold 18221888 | 3 |
Walter Bagehot 18261877 | 16 |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 18061861 | 30 |
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