Literary Criticism; an Introductory ReaderLionel Trilling |
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... less than might be supposed , and much less than it engaged critics of a former time . D. H. Lawrence and James Joyce are thought by many to be the two preeminent prose writers in English of the first third of the twentieth century ...
... less than might be supposed , and much less than it engaged critics of a former time . D. H. Lawrence and James Joyce are thought by many to be the two preeminent prose writers in English of the first third of the twentieth century ...
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... less than that . . whatever is less than the laws of light and of astronomical motion . . . or less than the laws that follow the thief the liar the glutton and the drunkard through his life and doubtless afterward . . . . . . or less ...
... less than that . . whatever is less than the laws of light and of astronomical motion . . . or less than the laws that follow the thief the liar the glutton and the drunkard through his life and doubtless afterward . . . . . . or less ...
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... less eager to preserve the best precedent work . He will drag out " sources " that prove him less original than his public would have him . As for Stendhal's stricture , if we can have a poetry that comes as close as prose , pour donner ...
... less eager to preserve the best precedent work . He will drag out " sources " that prove him less original than his public would have him . As for Stendhal's stricture , if we can have a poetry that comes as close as prose , pour donner ...
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